From: Josselin <josselin@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T22:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: string replacement...

On 2007-04-27 11:15:15 +0200, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> said:

> On 27.04.2007 09:29, Josselin 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 ?
> 
> How about
> 
> irb(main):006:0> str = "/proposal/list/31551"
> => "/proposal/list/31551"
> irb(main):007:0> str[%r{\d+$}]="9999"
> => "9999"
> irb(main):008:0> str
> => "/proposal/list/9999"
> 
> If it's a file name you could also do
> 
> irb(main):012:0> File.join(File.dirname(str), "9999")
> => "/proposal/list/9999"
> 
> I estimate there are another 5 million other ways around. :-)
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 	robert

I forgot to mention my main objective > replacing the term after the last '/'..
thanks to all

Joss