From 29332b3984438a6dcaf90a62b6cc5598102b4f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:33:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use actual regular expressions for header "regex"s.

---
 README.md       |  8 +++-----
 lib/roo/base.rb | 15 +--------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88876f4b..735e4aaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,16 +91,14 @@ xls.each(:id => 'UPC',:qty => 'ATS') {|hash| arr << hash}
 
 # NOTE: .parse does the same as .each, except it returns an array (similar to each vs. map)
 
-# not sure exactly what a column will be named? try a wildcard search with the character *
-# regex characters are allowed ('^price\s')
-# case insensitive
+# not sure exactly what a column will be named? try a wildcard search with a regex
 
-xls.parse(:id => 'UPC*SKU',:qty => 'ATS*\sATP\s*QTY$')
+xls.parse(:id => /UPC|SKU/,:qty => /ATS*\sATP\s*QTY\z/)
 
 # if you need to locate the header row and assign the header names themselves,
 # use the :header_search option
 
-xls.parse(:header_search => ['UPC*SKU','ATS*\sATP\s*QTY$'])
+xls.parse(:header_search => [/UPC*SKU/,/ATS*\sATP\s*QTY\z/])
 #=> each element will appear in this fashion:
 #=> {"UPC" => 123456789012, "STYLE" => "987B0", "COLOR" => "blue", "QTY" => 78}
 
diff --git a/lib/roo/base.rb b/lib/roo/base.rb
index c608578a..b851dce8 100644
--- a/lib/roo/base.rb
+++ b/lib/roo/base.rb
@@ -392,23 +392,10 @@ def parse(options = {})
   end
 
   def row_with(query, return_headers = false)
-    query.map! { |x| Array(x.split('*')) }
     line_no = 0
     each do |row|
       line_no += 1
-      # makes sure headers is the first part of wildcard search for priority
-      # ex. if UPC and SKU exist for UPC*SKU search, UPC takes the cake
-      headers = query.map do |q|
-        q.map do |i|
-          #if header has brackets in it for ex: date(yyyy-mm-dd), 
-          #can add other special characterss to this list.
-          if i.include?('(')
-            row.grep(i)[0]
-          else
-            row.grep(/#{i}/i)[0]
-          end
-        end.compact[0]
-      end.compact
+      headers = query.map { |q| row.grep(q)[0] }.compact
 
       if headers.length == query.length
         @header_line = line_no