From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-13T19:29:51+09:00
Subject: Re: simple name of a class?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> class Module
>  def relative_name
>    name.gsub(/^.*::/,'')
>  end
> end
>
> class Foo; class Bar; end; end
>
> puts Foo.new.class.relative_name
> puts Foo::Bar.new.class.relative_name

For the fun of it here's another regexp

irb(main):001:0> %w{foo foo::bar}.map {|s| s[/^(?:.*::)?([^:]+)$/, 1]}
=> ["foo", "bar"]

:-)

robert


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