From: Alan Chen Date: 2002-08-01T07:14:04+09:00 Subject: Re: How to copy string from in a file from some string onward? On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:58:23AM +0900, Kurt Euler wrote: > All- > > I'd appreciate your help on this one: > > Please advise as to how I can copy a substring X from string Y starting with string Z through the end of string Y. > > For example, supposing I have these strings: > > Y = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back." > Z = "jumped" > > I need a routine that will assign to string X the value > > "jumped over the lazy dogs back." > > I'll be putting this code in a script that will process several string Ys consecutively, where string Z is known to occur in each string Y. > > Thanks! > > -Kurt x = y.slice(Regexp.new("#{z}.*$")) There might be a faster way to code it, but this works. -- Alan Chen Digikata LLC http://digikata.com