From: Li Chen Date: 2009-07-15T18:58:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Search in string with regular expression Micke Micke wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to build a new string from a existing one. > > The original string is: my frog name is froggy > I will pull out only: frog froggy C:\Users\Alex>irb irb(main):001:0> str1 = 'my frog name is froggy' => "my frog name is froggy" irb(main):002:0> str2=str1.scan( /froggy|frog/ ) => ["frog", "froggy"] irb(main):003:0> str3=str1.scan( /frog|froggy/ ) => ["frog", "frog"] irb(main):004:0> Li -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.