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Regular Expressions in Ruby

Ruby has a wide variety of string handling methods, and a very strong regular expression engine. In one of the example I wrote today ([link] Regular Expression Example in Ruby) I've included a primer on the elements of a Ruby Regular expression as well as sample source code - showing you how you can match things like email addresses and postcode, and how you can extract the information from different parts of the matches too.

Other new Ruby string handling examples:

[link] Using a string as a collection

[link] Formatted printing in Ruby - printf sprintf and %

[link] Running a piped command via backquotes
(written 2009-07-16)

 
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R109 - Ruby - Strings and Regular Expressions
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  [1588] String interpretation in Ruby - (2008-03-21)
  [1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components - (2007-08-16)
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  [987] Ruby v Perl - interpollating variables - (2006-12-15)
  [986] puts - opposite of chomp in Ruby - (2006-12-15)
  [970] String duplication - x in Perl, * in Python and Ruby - (2006-12-07)


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