From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-06-07T09:23:03+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: deleting all of a string's contents BEF

Hi --

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Joshua Ballanco wrote:

> Chad Wells wrote:
>> That would work great if I was not worried that Youtube would change
>> their URL scheme (it doesn't seem too likely, given the abundance of
>> links out there, but should one ever fully count it out?). Not saying
>> it'll even always have an equals sign in it and then the unique video
>> indentifier at the end, either, so I guess it doesn't even matter! :-D
>>
>> Anyway, thanks everyone!! I am going to give "code = url.sub(/.*=/,
>> "")" a shot to see how it works for me.
>>
>> -C
>
> Don't forget, regular expressions in Ruby are objects (...well, yes,
> everything in Ruby is objects...). So, you could do something like:
>
> YOUTUBE_PARSER = Regexp.(/\w+$/)

Actually it's even easier:

   YOUTUBE_PARSER = /\w+$/

:-)


David

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