From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T19:52:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get word from sentence

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Rajkumar Surabhi
<mailtorajuit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> In my application i have to get the word which contains given word.
> example
> sentence: iam testung the aplication
> i want to extract the word which starts with test
> how to do this

You can do it with a regular expression. Here is an example:

irb(main):001:0> s = "i am testing the app"
=> "i am testing the app"
irb(main):004:0> s[/\btest\w*/]
=> "testing"

\b --> word boundary
\w --> word character

Jesus.