Hi, I’m having a little problem with matching a regex against a string.
I am storing data in mysql as a regex. At some point I need to match a
string to this regex. Here is what I am working with:
result = @dbconn.query(“SELECT id, to_user_regex FROM next”)
result.each do |row| @to_user_regex = row[1] @messages << row[0] if @user.match(/@to_user_regex/)
end
So lets say @user is a string holding ‘name1’ and @to_user_regex is
‘name1|name2’. I’m trying to match this. Does anyone have any ideas as
to why this wouldn’t be matching?
So lets say @user is a string holding ‘name1’ and @to_user_regex is
‘name1|name2’. I’m trying to match this. Does anyone have any ideas as
to why this wouldn’t be matching?
If you do /@x/, you’re matching the pattern “@x”. If you want to use
the string as a regex, you would do either:
/#{@x}/.match(string)
or
Regexp.new(@x).match(string)
In your example, you’d want:
/#{@to_user_regex}/.match(@user)
assuming @user is a string. You might have to tweak this for your
particular case, but that should get you started.
