From: Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T14:57:34+09:00
Subject: Re: how to extract something in between a pattern

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suroot57@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sep 22, 12:58 pm, Cheyne Li <happy.go.lucky....@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>     
>
> If you want to use regexp, a quick and dirty way would be :
>
> (a.split %r{</?p>})[1]
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or:
irb(main):001:0> a = 'aabbcc<p>ccddee</p>'
=> "aabbcc<p>ccddee</p>"
irb(main):002:0> a[%r{<p>(.*)</p>}, 1]
=> "ccddee"



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