From: Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T09:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Another regular expression question

tuyet.ctn@mscibarra.com wrote:
> I have a select box that contains two items that are similar:
> 1) GICS Sector
> 2) Sector
> 
> How do tweak this command to select the second item "Sector" instead of
> "GICS Sector"?
> 
> irb(main):065:0> ie.frame("customizeRemoteContent").select_list(:id,
> "availableColumnsSelectBox").select(/Sector/)
> 
> This selects "GICS Sector"
> 
> I have tried select([Sector]) and other permutations but can't seem to
> find the right one.  I did go to this site to read up more about
> regular expression, but the examples are not very clear.  Appreciate
> your suggestions!
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/intro.html#S5
> 

Look for "anchors". The sequence "\A" matches the beginning of a string, 
so the regular expression /\ASector/ will match only strings that start 
with "Sector".

Similarly "\z" matches the end of a string.