From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-07-15T19:48:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Search in string with regular expression

> Maybe
>  str2 = str1.scan( /\bfrog\w*\B/ ).join(" ")
> that is if you want to match frog at the start of words only (\b) and
> assure charcters of your choice up to the end of the word? As \w might
> be a little bit too permissive, in 1.9 you might prefer
>   str2 = str1.scan( /\bfrog[[:alpha:]]*\B/ ).join(" ")
> and all those nice variations ;)
>
> HTH
> Robert
>
>
>
Or maybe, :)

str2 = str1.scan( /\bfrog\w*\b/ ).join(" ")

Harry

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