From: Rajkumar Surabhi <mailtorajuit@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T21:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get word from sentence


thanxs
how to get the first word matches the expresion if i have no of words 
which matches.

Jes炭s Gabriel y Gal叩n wrote:
> 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.

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