From: Mike Steiner <mikejaysteiner@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T11:20:33+09:00
Subject: testing and assigning with regexp's

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I'm new to Ruby, and in a little program I'm writing, I have code like this:

str = ''
if /something/.match(str)
    str = /something/.match(str)[1]
end

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

Mike Steiner

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