From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-11-17T04:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub and reg expressions

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:00:26 -0500, Stuart Clarke wrote:

> I am having a few problems getting gsub to work with my regular
> expressions.
> 
> I have a field full of data and therefore I am using a regular
> expression to extract one part of it -  #{event.description[/Logon
> Type:\t2/]}
> 
> This works fine. I want to now add in gsub to replace 'Logon Type: 2'
> with the string 'Local Logon' - #{event.description.gsub([/Logon
> Type:\t2/], 'Local Logon')}
> 
> However when i run this code i get the following error:
> 
> C:/Documents and Settings/sc/Desktop/test.rb:116:in `gsub': wrong
> argumen
> t type Array (expected Regexp) (TypeError)
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas where I am going wrong?
> 
> Many thanks

get rid of the [] around the regular expression.

event.description.gsub(/Logon Type:\t2/, 'Local Logon')


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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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