Hey,
New to ruby and unfamiliar with the function ‘truncate’
Also, what does this do:
gsub(/<.*?>/, ‘’)
Particularly, the regex.
Thanks!
Hi –
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Justin To wrote:
Hey,
New to ruby and unfamiliar with the function ‘truncate’
Also, what does this do:
gsub(/<.*?>/, ‘’)
Particularly, the regex.
gsub does global string substitution of a pattern with a replacement
string.
You’re absolutely going to have to start using ri if you want to learn
about Ruby methods. Start with:
ri gsub
then realize you care about the String version, and do
ri String#gsub
and so forth.
David
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gsub replaces stuff that matches the first expression with the second
parameter. In this case, the second parameter is empty, so it’s
replacing
matches with nothing, effectively stripping them out.
The regex looks a little odd to me, but it looks like it’s trying to
remove
everything between angle-brackets from the string. I’m not sure about
the ?
though, I would have thought that
gsub(/<.*>/,‘’)
would have the same effect?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Justin To
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wrote:
Thanks!
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Paul S.
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I looked further into it. Given the text:
Stuff
The version you posted will first match
, then match
, leavingyou
with “Stuff”.
The version I posted is greedy, and matches the whole of
Stuff
,leaving you with nothing.
I guess you want the version you posted 
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Paul S. [email protected]
wrote:
would have the same effect?
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Paul S.
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Paul S.
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