From: Robert Klemme <lists@...>
Date: 2012-04-02T16:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp replace every other one

gabe gabriellini wrote in post #1054415:
> this works great:
>
> puts "abc def ghi jkl mno".gsub(/[a-z]{3}/, "123")
>
> The only problem i have is when i use a string like this one:
>
> puts "gabriel y martha iba gtz ibanez nat".gsub(/(\A|\s)([a-zA-Z]{3})
> ($|\s)/," Gutierrez ")
>
> the gtz after the iba does not get replaced

I think you want \b (word boundary) to create something like this:

irb(main):001:0> "gabriel y martha iba gtz ibanez nat".gsub /\b\w{3}\b/, 
'X'
=> "gabriel y martha X X ibanez X"

Kind regards

robert

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