From: Lars Haugseth <njus@...>
Date: 2008-10-01T22:04:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String delete method help

* Keith Johnston <keith@kjohnston.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a string which hold a URL. I'm trying to use the string .delete
> method to remove the domain from the url but it isn't working as I
> thought it should from the docs.
> 
> For example:
> 
> string = "http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/"
> 
> I want to remove the "http://groups.google.com" part of the string, so
> I tried:
> 
> string.delete('http', 'com')

No need to reinvent the wheel:

  require 'uri'
  uri = URI.parse('http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/')
  puts uri.path

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/uri/rdoc/classes/URI.html

-- 
Lars Haugseth

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