From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-10-10T00:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Making one reg ex out of two

Hi,

Am Freitag, 09. Okt 2009, 22:27:01 +0900 schrieb Jim Burgess:
> 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"]
> 
> Thanks very much for that.
> It'll take me a while to figure out what you've done, but that seems to 
> work perfectly!

Shorter:

  course_info =~ %r{<title>(.+?)</title>}
  $1 == "Maths"

Bertram


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