From: "Jean G." <rubynewbee@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T21:09:36+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get word from sentence

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:48 PM, 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
>

or use scan:

irb(main):005:0> s="iam testung the aplication"
=> "iam testung the aplication"
irb(main):006:0> s.scan /\btest\w*/
=> ["testung"]