From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T14:41:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to esclude substrings

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On 25-May-06, at 1:24 AM, vincent wrote:

> I'm trying to resolve a very simple problem, but I'm encountering some
> issues.
>
> Input: "this is a string where you can find some words"
> Output: [this, string, where, can, find, some, words]
>
> So I'm trying to eliminate ' is ', ' a ' and ' you ' from the string
> (note the spaces, 'this' shouldn't be eliminated just because it
> includes 'is').
>
> I tried the following (and many others), but it doens't work:
> my_string =3D input_string.gsub!(/\s+(is|a|you)\s+/i,

my_string =3D input_string.gsub!(/\s+\b(is|a|you)\b\s+/i, ' ').split

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