From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-10-13T04:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Making one reg ex out of two

On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Jim Burgess <jack.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a string:
>
> 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"
>
> So far I came up with:
>
> course_info.gsub!(/^(.*)<title>/, "")
> course_info.gsub!(/<\/title>(.*)$/, "").chomp!
> p course_info
> # -> "Maths"
>
> Is it possible amalgamate these two regular expressions into one or to
> improve this in any way?

This looks like an XML string. Did course_info come from an XML
document? An XML parser like Hpricot or Nokogiri would be an
improvement.