From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T17:01:07+09:00
Subject: Re: string replacement...

William James wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2:29 am, Josselin <josse...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> I have a string :  str = "/proposal/list/31551"
>>
>> I would like to change the 31551 by another value "9999", but I don't
>> see whicj method I should use ?
>>
>> str.each  and block ? or str.rindex('/') and concatenating the new value ?
>>
>> tfyh
>>
>> joss
> 
> str[/\d+/] = "9999"
Whoa.  I hadn't seen that syntax before.  Nice.

-- 
Alex