From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T04:46:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Find Position of text


On Jul 5, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> j3n7il jones wrote:
>> Is thier also a way to go to the next occurence?
>> Like
>> input = : cat : bat : mat :
>> param = getparam(input,':', 3)
>> then param would equal "mat"
>> See what I Mean?
>
> Lots of ways to do this. One way:
>
> irb(main):016:0> input
> => ": cat : bat : mat :"
> irb(main):017:0> input.scan(/: ([^:]*) /)[2]
> => ["mat"]
>
> The hard part is getting the regex right.

Regex are fun and all, but why not just:
input = ": cat : bat : mat :"
input.split(":")[4].strip

-Mat