From: Paul Wanadoo NL Date: 2001-12-29T21:19:37+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29631] Re: Stripping substrings from strings on 12/29/01 5:18 AM, Dave Thomas at Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com wrote: > "Ralph Mason" writes: > >> irb(main):002:0> "123456789 TCP/XT OK".gsub(/TCP\/XT OK/,nil) >> =>"123456789 " > > Or even... > > a = "123456789 TCP/XT OK" > a["TCP/XT OK"] = "" > puts a #=> "123456789 " > > > Dave > clever clogs ! thanks