From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T23:54:22+09:00
Subject: Re: short regexp question

Hi --

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Fritzek wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> short question how to use regexp the right way
> given is a="a[b]c"
> I nedd b="a c"
>
> tried to split using (/(\[|\])/) to get  ["a", "[", "b", "]", "c"]
>
> b=a.strip.split(/(\[|\])/)
>
> and then joined the bits together. this just works in a simple case
> like "a[b]c", but "[b]" could occur multiple times.
>
> I need something like search for any "[b]" and substitute with a
> blank.

b = a.delete("[b]")


David

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