From: Daniel N <has.sox@...>
Date: 2007-06-18T09:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing strings

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On 6/18/07, NB88 <germans88@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Quick question, is there a method for deleting substrings from within a
> string. If not, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> -Thanks



the gsub or gsub! methods will do this.  They take a pattern (string or
regexp) and replace it with whatever you specify.  In this case an empty
string.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000839

e.g.

"The quck brown fox".gub( /brown/, "" )  #=> "The quick fox"

Cheers
Daniel

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