From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T00:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Chopping the beginning of a string elegantly

On 29/07/05, francisrammeloo@hotmail.com <francisrammeloo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all,
> 
> I eventually used this
> 
> thePane = line.scan(/Begin\w+/)[0].sub(/Begin/, "")
> 
> where line looks like this:
> BeginCaption                            0, 20, 66, ..
> 
> It looks a little better but still not very elegant. Is it possible to
> make it even still shorter?
> 
> Best regards,
> Francis
> 
> 
> 

line.sub(/^Begin(\w+).*/, '\1')
 => "Caption"


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