From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2010-10-10T02:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Better way to remove all occurrence of matches on a String

>
> What feels a bit "awkward" to me in the first approach is to specify I
> want no replacement (so nothing, so I should not have to specify it).
>

If you *really* want to avoid a second parameter, you could try
something like this.
But, I would not actually say it is better.
Anyway....


str = "foo bar foo bar foo"
p str.split(/\bbar\b/)*""


Harry