From: moontoeki@... (Sung Moon)
Date: 2002-02-01T12:54:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

>Subject: Newbie question
>From: andrew_queisser@hp.com  (andrew queisser)
>What's the best way to return a substring that consists of the first 4
>words, if words are comma-delimited, e.g.:
>
>line = "1,2,3,4,5,6,7"
>line.GetFirstFour
>
>should return
>
>"1,2,3,4"
>
try this
re = /(|d+,\d+,\d+,\d+)[,|$]/
a = "1,2,3,4,5,6"
b = $1 if a =~ re

cheers,

sungjin moon
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