From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T04:18:05+09:00
Subject: Re: confused by back refs in gsub

Jano Svitok wrote:
> On 8/13/07, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I want:
>> <SUB.HEAD4>Normandy Group LLC(/SUB.HEAD4>
> 
> This works for me (I've used \1):
> 
> require 'test/unit'
> class TestGsub < Test::Unit::TestCase
>         def test_replace
>                 line = "<registrantName>Normandy Group 
> LLC</registrantName>"
> 
> line.gsub!(/<registrantName>(.*)<\/registrantName>/,'<SUB.HEAD4>\1</SUB.HEAD4>')
>                 assert_equal(line, '<SUB.HEAD4>Normandy Group 
> LLC</SUB.HEAD4>')
>         end
> end
> 
> Note that you have (/SUB.HEAD4> instead of </SUB.HEAD4> (the 
> parenthesis)


Thank you, Jano. Yes, this worked for me now.

Cheers.

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