From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T23:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: string replacement


"J.Lang" <jlang@ywesee.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1097503642.10233.38.camel@tux...
> we need to replace a  whitespace with a <br> if the string is longer
> then 30 chars (next whitespace after 30 chars)

So you don't want to replace all spaces but only insert a line break every
~30 characters.

> does someone have a idea to programm this in ruby?

How about this:

str.gsub(/(.{30})\s+/, '\\1<br>')

Alternatively you can use gsub! if you want to modify the string in place.

Kind regards

    robert