From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T21:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: How to copy string from in a file from some string onward?

Mauricio Fern�ndez (batsman.geo@yahoo.com) wrote:
>  On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:58:23AM +0900, Kurt Euler wrote:
[...]
> > Please advise as to how I can copy a substring X from string Y
> > starting with string Z through the end of string Y.
>  
>  Yet another:
>  
>  x = y[(y =~ /#{z}/)..-1]

Does not work reliably if 'z' contains special regular expression
characters such as '.':

irb(main):001:0> z = "."
"."
irb(main):002:0> y = "alpha.beta."
"alpha.beta."
irb(main):003:0> x = y[(y =~ /#{z}/)..-1]
"alpha.beta."

You want to use String#index, e.g.

x = y[y.index(z)..-1]

		Reimer Behrends