From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T02:38:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25203] Re: Linux Magazine article

[Niklas Frykholm]
>>> Indexing strings by regexps

[Jos Backus]
>> This sounds interesting. Can you give an example please?

[HarryO]
> 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.

You can also do

    s[/f.*r/] = "lizard ducks under"
    p s

// Niklas