tag:blog.infosauce.com,2005:Typo Typo 2006-10-26T21:41:16-07:00 Tieg Zaharia urn:uuid:16244861-2b0a-48d0-97a9-2aae95529195 2006-02-01T23:49:00-08:00 2006-10-26T21:41:16-07:00

<p>Unbeknownst to me, there�s a quick way of doing a match &amp; replace on a string in Ruby using just the brackets: (page 588 in the Ruby Book)</p> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a = "bla bla bla"</code><br> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a[/a/i]="A"</code><br> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a =&amp;gt; "blA bla bla"</code><br> <br> Unfortunately it only does one replace instead of a global replace, but I don�t know enough about RegExp�s now to know if there�s a way to do a global replace with this?

<p>Unbeknownst to me, there�s a quick way of doing a match &amp; replace on a string in Ruby using just the brackets: (page 588 in the Ruby Book)</p> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a = "bla bla bla"</code><br> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a[/a/i]="A"</code><br> <code style="font-size: 12px;">a =&amp;gt; "blA bla bla"</code><br> <br> Unfortunately it only does one replace instead of a global replace, but I don�t know enough about RegExp�s now to know if there�s a way to do a global replace with this? PJ Hyett urn:uuid:15dd736c-51d1-459e-b0f5-70d12e1cd8c2 2006-02-03T23:59:00-08:00 2006-10-22T21:34:46-07:00 <p>a.gsub(/a/,’A’)</p> Tim Connor urn:uuid:af28924d-bb4d-4c7c-881b-0b5af1d8b5dc 2006-02-02T00:07:00-08:00 2006-10-22T21:34:45-07:00 <p>I guess I’m wrong – ruby doesn’t seem to support the g option. That’s lame.</p> Tim Connor urn:uuid:2207fb49-afe9-4056-bbb2-b1c4edba2476 2006-02-01T23:59:00-08:00 2006-10-22T21:34:46-07:00 <p>It should be /a/ig, I believe, for global (i is ignore case, g is global)</p>