From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-04-12T22:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple substitutions

Peter Szinek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>>          line.sub!(/\%\%Pages: ([0-9]{1,5})/"Pages: \1"/)
> How about this:
> 
> line.sub!(/%%Pages: (\d{1,5})/){"Pages: " + $1}
> 
> bw,
> Peter

Yes, that worked for me. Thank you, Peter. Like Ross' response above, I 
hadn't yet seen a regex expressed this way, where a block is used for 
the replacement part of a regex. Different, but powerful. Thanks again.

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