From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-13T01:57:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Cutting a piece of text

On Feb 12, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Zdebel wrote:

> Helo !
> I've started to learn ruby and I'm amazed with it. Now I have a  
> problem
> that I can't solve. If I have a string like this:
> "<lyrics artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX> Lalalalala </lyrics>" how  
> can I
> cut the " artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX" part, so it would look like:
> "<lyrcis> Lalalalala </lyrics>" Could you please help me ?

You can do it with a regular expression like the following, but I  
must stress that this isn't very robust:

 >> "<lyrics artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX> Lalalalala </lyrics>".sub 
(/<(\w+)[^>]+>/, "<\\1>")
=> "<lyrics> Lalalalala </lyrics>"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II