From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T22:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Making one reg ex out of two

On Oct 9, 6:46 am, Jim Burgess <jack.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> course_info =
> "<course><date>10.10.09<date><title>Maths</title></course>"
>
> I want to use a reg ex to extract the title from the string, in this
> case "Maths"

Slim2:~ phrogz$ irb
irb(main):001:0> course_info =
"<course><date>10.10.09<date><title>Maths</title></course>"
=> "<course><date>10.10.09<date><title>Maths</title></course>"

irb(main):002:0> course_info[ /<title>([^<]+)/, 1 ]
=> "Maths"

irb(main):003:0> %r{<title>(.+?)</title>}.match(course_info).to_a
=> ["<title>Maths</title>", "Maths"]