From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2011-02-26T19:18:48+09:00
Subject: Re: regex gsub

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Lorenzo Brito Morales
<lorenzo.brito@gmail.com> wrote:
>  i have already working these phone.gsub(regex, "<
> #{regex.match(phone)} >" ) but i think is another way to do it not?
> like phone.gsub(regex,"< \1 >")
> but the last instrucction does not bring the regex.match
>
> what i want to do , is suppose you have the string "i love my dad "
> the regex find dad then substitute dad <dad> , i have already solved
> but i want
> to know if the a fancy way to do the gsub like gsub(regex,"< \1 >")
> instead of phone.gsub(regex, "< #{regex.match(phone)} >" )
>
>

str = "i love my dad"
str2 = "I went to Baghdad"

p str.gsub(/(dad)/,'<\1>') #> "i love my <dad>"

p str2.gsub(/(dad)/,'<\1>') #> "I went to Bagh<dad>"


Do you also want that second match?





Harry