From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-08-06T00:10:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex question

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, David Alan Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Mike Hall wrote:
>
> > David Alan Black wrote:
> >
> > >    /[^.]*$/.match(file)[0]
> >
> > Now wouldn't all this be much simpler if we had a method
> > along the lines of 'basename', which would pull off the
> > extension (or suffix) for us?  We already have File::basename
> > and File::dirname, so why not a File::last-part-of-the-name-name?
> >
> > Or what about a 'File::parts' which returns an array of:
> > directory (or nil), root name (or nil), suffix(es) (or nil).
> > Would that be more Ruby-esqe?
>
> Heavens -- object-oriented regular expressions are Ruby-esque enough
> for you? :-)

sub(/are/, "aren't")  # :-)


David

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