From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T19:44:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp in Ruby

Teme Rosi 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?

s = "My name is Jack Frost"
    ==>"My name is Jack Frost"
s[ /My name is (.*)/, 1 ]
    ==>"Jack Frost"