From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T02:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp in Ruby

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Teme Rosi <the_beaf@hotmail.com> wrote:
> names = ["My name is Jack"]
> if names =~ /My name is (\w+)/i
> puts $1
> end
>
>
> What im trying to do with this code is to print rest of the line of the
> same line where "My name is" is. But it doesnt work. Can anyone help?

In your snippet, names is an array, so the method =~ doesn't do
anything meaningful.
You need to call that on the string like this:

irb(main):019:0> names = "My name is Jack"
=> "My name is Jack"
irb(main):020:0> if names =~ /My name is (\w+)/i
irb(main):021:1> puts $1
irb(main):022:1> end
Jack

Jesus.