From: Bryan Kennerley Date: 2010-08-08T01:55:02+09:00 Subject: Re: regexp help - substring of a backreference Benoit Daloze wrote: > text.gsub(/http:?\/*(\w+[\w\-\.\/~\?%&=#;,\+:\@]+)/) {|match| %Q{ href="http://#{$1}" target="_blank">http://#{$1[0...50]}} } Thanks, works a charm :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.