From: suroot57@...
Date: 2008-09-25T09:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: how to extract something in between a pattern

On Sep 22, 12:58 pm, Cheyne Li <happy.go.lucky....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi experts,
>
> I'm not very familiar with ruby's library. I wonder if there a method
> can extract something in a pattern? For example,
>
> I have a string: a=aabbcc<p>ccddee</p>
>
> I wanna get the anything between <p> and </p>, which is ccddee
>
> Thanks in advance.
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If you want to use regexp, a quick and dirty way would be :

(a.split %r{</?p>})[1]