From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-04-10T05:26:07+09:00
Subject: Re: return string within seperators only

On 4/9/10, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:
> trying to do something like this
>
> some text
> some more text /what I want/ some more text
> some more text
>
> returns
>
> "what I want"
>
> how would I write this to get just what is between the first and second
> forward slashes?

irb(main):001:0> s=<<END
irb(main):002:0" some text
irb(main):003:0" some more text /what I want/ some more text
irb(main):004:0" some more text
irb(main):005:0" END
=> "some text\nsome more text /what I want/ some more text\nsome more text\n"
irb(main):006:0> s[%r{/.*?/}]
=> "/what I want/"

> also I might want to use several times within the same file.

irb(main):007:0> s<<<<END2
irb(main):008:0" yet some more text
irb(main):009:0" blab blab /what I want even more/ and after that
irb(main):010:0" yaddidda yaddidda
irb(main):011:0" END2
=> "some text\nsome more text /what I want/ some more text\nsome more
text\nyet some more text\nblab blab /what I want even more/ and after
that\nyaddidda yaddidda\n"
irb(main):012:0> s.scan %r{/.*?/}
=> ["/what I want/", "/what I want even more/"]


HTH