From: Pascua 9804 <pascua9804@...>
Date: 2011-09-15T00:55:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Tough Ruby Homework

Darryl Pierce wrote in post #1021946:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:27:08PM +0900, Rory Pascua wrote:
>> Not a school homework.  Its a work homework.  Thanks
>
> I think that makes no difference. What have _you_ done first to attempt
> to solve this?

I know.. I know.. My post sounded like I didn't even try because I went
straight to the question without even explaining what I did.  Well
here's what I did.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
string="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
def get_subsection(word, sentence)
sentence.scan(Regexp.new(word))
end

puts get_subsection("quick", string)
puts get_subsection("lazy", string)
puts get_subsection("fox", string)
puts get_subsection("dog", string)

I just need the REGEX portion to select the three words on both sides
and right now I'm struggling with it.  I tried looking at "lookaround"
but it got me even more confused.

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