From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T05:24:23+09:00
Subject: Re: sub(/variable/,'')

On Aug 7, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Marcin Jurczuk wrote:

> Helo here is my problem:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\spock>irb
> irb(main):001:0> a="DEL"
> => "DEL"
> irb(main):002:0> b="DELETE"
> => "DELETE"
> irb(main):003:0> b.sub(/a/,'')
> => "DELETE"
> irb(main):004:0> b.sub(/DEL/,'')
> => "ETE"
> irb(main):005:0> quit
>
>
> How use variable "a" as sub argument ?

Just as you include a variable in a string:

b.sub(/#{a}/, "")

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II