Hello,
I want to replace:
id=“idxxxxxxx” with id=“id20”
in a string
I know this can be done with gsub but I don’t know how to use wildcards.
The xxxxxxx can be of any length but only numbers
Thx
This should do - string.gsub(/\d+/, ‘20’)
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 15:40, Reinhart V. [email protected] wrote:
in a string
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Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva S…
Hi –
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Reinhart V. wrote:
in a string
I know this can be done with gsub but I don’t know how to use wildcards.
The xxxxxxx can be of any length but only numbers
You don’t actually want a wildcard; you want a character class and a
quantifier. The character class is \d (which is short for [0-9]), and
the quantifier is + (one or more, assuming that if there aren’t any
then this isn’t one of the cases you’re trying to change).
So, you’d end up with something like this:
str.gsub!(/\bid=“id\d+”/, ‘id=“id20”’)
(I tossed in a \b (word boundary) so that if it found ‘david=“id123”’
it wouldn’t change it 
David
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Thank you David!
Hi –
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Dhruva S. wrote:
id=“idxxxxxxx” with id=“id20”
in a string
I know this can be done with gsub but I don’t know how to use wildcards.
The xxxxxxx can be of any length but only numbers
This should do - string.gsub(/\d+/, ‘20’)
That’s a bit over-eager; it will change any sequence of digits
anywhere in the string.
David
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David A. Black, Senior Developer, Cyrus Innovation Inc.
THE Ruby training with Black/Brown/McAnally
COMPLEAT Coming to Chicago area, June 18-19, 2010!
RUBYIST http://www.compleatrubyist.com
That’s right David, but I was just nudging him in the right direction
:).
As per what he asked, it solves it :).
Having said that, you’re solution is obviously more accurate.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 15:49, David A. Black [email protected] wrote:
I know this can be done with gsub but I don’t know how to use wildcards.
David
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David A. Black, Senior Developer, Cyrus Innovation Inc.THE Ruby training with Black/Brown/McAnally
COMPLEAT Coming to Chicago area, June 18-19, 2010!
RUBYIST http://www.compleatrubyist.com
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Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva S…