From: Jim Burgess <jack.zelig@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T22:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Making one reg ex out of two

Thanks very much for that.
It'll take me a while to figure out what you've done, but that seems to 
work perfectly!

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 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"]

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