From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2005-02-10T16:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to mimic Perl's `s///' in Ruby?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:05:05AM +0900, Florian Gross wrote:
> Jos Backus wrote:
> Not sure why you'd want to do that (.slice!() works better IMHO), but 
> perhaps you can do it like this:
> 
> "hello"[/((?:hallo)?)/, 1] = ""

Yes, that works too. And I just tried the slice! version and it is more
elegant than the [] solution. Thanks Florian.

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