From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T21:37:25+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

Vamsee Kanakala wrote:
> 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' ?

Try name.sub(/#{phrase}/i, '**')

    robert