From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T23:53:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25183] Re: Linux Magazine article

In article <20011114001517.GC44028@lizzy.bugworks.com>, "Jos Backus"
<josb@cncdsl.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:34:03PM +0900, Niklas Frykholm wrote:
>> Indexing strings by regexps
>> 
>>     I am constantly amazed by how often this makes my code shorter AND
>>     more readable.
> 
> This sounds interesting. Can you give an example please?

I didn't know about it, either, but took a guess and tried this ...

   s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

   p s[/f.*r/]

which generates "fox jumps over".  So, indexing using a regex appears to
give you the first substring that matches the regular expression.

Very nice, indeed!