From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2010-01-30T12:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I use a variable in a regexp search string?

>
> I dont know how to use a variable in a regex searchstring.
> ruby seems to only handle hardcoded serachstring in
> regex's.   How do you do this.   My code is below.
>

Does this help?

str = "abcdef"
searchstring = "cd"
p str =~ /#{searchstring}/


Harry