From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T05:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: string extraction

Hi --

On 10/01/2008, Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the Ruby way to extract a string like this?
>
> old_string="5'-AAAAAAAA    CCCCCCCC  TTT   GGGGG    GGGG-3'"
> new_string="AAAAAAAACCCCCCCCTTTGGGGGGGGG"
>

old_string="5'-AAAAAAAA    CCCCCCCC  TTT   GGGGG   GGGG-3'".scan(/[A-Z]+/).to_s

And variations thereof.

-- Thomas Adam