From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T20:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp

On May 14, 7:01 am, Mikael Björkegren <mb.s...@live.se> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Anyone who can help me with this. If i have a string and want to take
> out a sub string of that by regexp.
>
>  1. string = "Today is it monday after work. blah blah."
> or
>  2. string2 = "monday morning. Nice day today."
>
> And i would like to get a certain line with the word monday in it.
> Like results below.
>
>  1. result = "Today is it monday after work"
>  2. result2 = "monday morning"

So you want the sentence, not including the period? What if there is a
preceding sentence?

Try
puts string[/[^.]*[Mm]onday[^.]*/]

-- Mark.