From: Alexander Jesner <alexander@...>
Date: 2010-02-27T06:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex for "not matching" an unneeded prefix substring?

On 02/26/2010 22:20, Jet Koten wrote:
> The one from condition [in the code above] is the one that is giving me
> a challenge. The string that is sent to condition will always be exactly
> one of the following and nothing else at all:
>
> "Used - Like New"
> "Used - Very Good"
> "Used - Good"
> "Used - Acceptable"
>
> I'm trying to get them to display as the following in the puts at the
> end of my code:
>
> "Like New"
> "Very Good"
> "Good"
> "Acceptable"
>   

If you just want to ged rid of the word "Used", you could use something
like this:

   text = "Used - Like New"
   text[7, text.length]
=> "Like New"

Regards