From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-06-07T06:30:16+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: deleting all of a string's contents BEFORE a certain character

On Jun 6, 2:44 pm, superwick <superw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to figure out how to take a string like this: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuClxuWdH8"
> and removing everything before (and including) the "=", creating a new
> string with just "QMuClxuWdH8".

irb(main):003:0> s = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuClxuWdH8"
=> "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuClxuWdH8"
irb(main):004:0> s =~ /[^=]+$/
=> 31
irb(main):005:0> s[ /[^=]+$/ ]
=> "QMuClxuWdH8"