From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T06:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: string replacement...

On 4/27/07, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
<snip>
>
> thanks Bj�rn , expected result for digits, but I forgot any other
> characters , replacing the item after the last / was my goal
Ah that gives the problem a different flavor:

(str.split("/")[0..-2] + ["9999"]).join("/")

but regexens are probably better after all

str.sub!(%r{[^/]*$}, "9999")

HTH
Robert

>
> irb(main):007:0> str = "/proposals/list/31555"
> => "/proposals/list/31555"
> irb(main):012:0> str.gsub! /[0-9]+$/, "9999"
> => "/proposals/list/9999"
>
> but
>
> irb(main):013:0> str2 = "/proposals/list/abcde"
> => "/proposals/list/abcde"
> irb(main):014:0> str2.gsub! /[0-9]+$/, "9999"
> => nil
>
>
> josss :-))
>
>
>


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