From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T22:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: testing and assigning with regexp's

Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> writes:

> Mike Steiner wrote:
>> 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
>>
> str = ''
> m = /something/.match(str)
> str = m[1] if m

str = str[/something/, 1] || str

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