From: Josselin <josselin@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T22:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: string replacement...

On 2007-04-27 09:52:29 +0200, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> said:

> 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"

irb(main):007:0> str = "/proposals/list/31555"
=> "/proposals/list/31555"
irb(main):008:0> str.sub /\d+$/, '9999'
=> "/proposals/list/9999"
irb(main):009:0> str[/\d+/] = "9999"
=> "9999"

got it from Stefano... Thanks Bill