From: Fritzek <fritz.thielemann@...>
Date: 2008-09-19T00:02:25+09:00
Subject: Re: short regexp question

Hi David

thanks for quick answer. your code just works, if you know "b". I only
know the surrounding brackets "[" and "]" The bit in between could be
everything. sorry, forgot to mention.

Fritzek

On 18 Sep., 16:54, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> 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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