From: Rilindo Foster <rilindo@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T07:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expressions: Find part of a string

In addition to other comments, you can go here and test your regular  
expressions:

http://rubular.com/

On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Jermaine wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm quite new to regular expressions, and I'm looking for a way to
> find the first 3 letters in a string.
>
> So let's say I have the following string: "foobar", I want to know
> what the first three letters of this string is (in this case it's
> foo).
>
> What is the regex to make this happen?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>