From: Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
Date: 2008-09-17T11:03:34+09:00
Subject: Re: basic Regex question

excellent - thanks heaps

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Peņa, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
> From: Greg Hauptmann [mailto:greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com]
> # dumb question perhaps, but how do I do a Ruby based regex expression
> # that takes the following as input and produces the following as
> # output:
> # INPUT: "#{some_string}"   # or perhaps if the # needs escaping this
> # should be "\#{some_string}"
> # OUTPUT: "some_string"
> # i.e. what do I put in:  "#{some_string}".match("????")
>
> something fr,
>
> re=/\#\{(.*?)\}/
> #=> /\#\{(.*?)\}/
>
> s="\#{some_string}"
> #=> "\#{some_string}"
>
> s.match(re).captures
> #=> ["some_string"]
>
>