From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T00:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: testing and assigning with regexp's

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On 5/4/07, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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


In that vein,
str.gsub!(/\A.*(something).*\z/, '\\1')


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> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
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