From: Collins Richey <crichey@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T03:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String highlighting problem (newbie)

On Dec 29, 2007 6:47 AM, Mark Toth <mark.toth@telia.com> wrote:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1.  I have a string
> @string = "This is a long string".
>
> How can I do to make two words "bold" or "italic" in this string, for
> example "is" and "long" shoudl be <b>?
>

Brute force method?

ar = @string.split(' ')
ar[1] = "<b>#{ar[1]}</b>"
ar[3] = "<b>#{ar[3]}</b>"
@string = ar.join(' ')

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