From: Michael Fellinger Date: 2005-11-22T21:34:29+09:00 Subject: Re: newbie question --nextPart1151914.iA3RVV388T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline irb(main):001:0> a = "Jasmine" => "Jasmine" irb(main):002:0> phrase = "jas" => "jas" irb(main):003:0> a.sub(/#{phrase}/i, '**') => "**mine" irb(main):004:0> Am Dienstag 22 November 2005 13:29 schrieb Vamsee Kanakala: > Hi all, > > I'm playing with patterns: > > irb(main):001:0> name = "Jasmine" > => "Jasmine" > irb(main):002:0> phrase = "ja" > => "ja" > irb(main):003:0> name.sub(/ja/i, '**') > => "**smine" > irb(main):004:0> name.sub(/phrase/i, '**') > => "Jasmine" > > So, how do I tell sub that it should use the local variable phrase > instead of the string 'phrase' ? > > TIA, > Vamsee. --nextPart1151914.iA3RVV388T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDgxBPMdQeL6eBxhIRAkPIAJ9Gkt95Sn4Mr6IfJhA1x9yYNYzJzwCdEC48 /4hGvSnSXnCt2weZviu0jhY= =eTGv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1151914.iA3RVV388T--