From: Sebastian probst Eide <sebastian.probst.eide@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T05:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing text with regular expression

Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Sebastian probst Eide wrote:
>> I thought I could check by looking for something like this:
>>
>> text =~ /[[:punct:]]\s?WORD_I_AM_LOOKING_FOR/
>> and if I got something else than 0 as a result it would mean that the
>> word is in the beginning of a sentence. But how do I insert a variable
>> into the regular expression? 
> Use #{}, like this
> 
> word = "hello"
> 
> test =~ /[[:punct:]]\s?#{word}/
> 
> "word" can be any regular expression.

Huh... that was the first thing I tried... must have done something else 
wrong too in the same expression because it didn't work... I'll try 
again.
Thanks Timothy

Sebastian

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