http://blog.infosauce.com/articles/2006/02/01/ruby-conveniences en-us 40 <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? Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:49:00 -0800 urn:uuid:16244861-2b0a-48d0-97a9-2aae95529195 Tieg Zaharia http://blog.infosauce.com/articles/2006/02/01/ruby-conveniences Ruby <p>a.gsub(/a/,’A’)</p> Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:59:00 -0800 urn:uuid:15dd736c-51d1-459e-b0f5-70d12e1cd8c2 http://blog.infosauce.com/articles/2006/02/01/ruby-conveniences#comment-21 <p>I guess I’m wrong – ruby doesn’t seem to support the g option. That’s lame.</p> Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:07:00 -0800 urn:uuid:af28924d-bb4d-4c7c-881b-0b5af1d8b5dc http://blog.infosauce.com/articles/2006/02/01/ruby-conveniences#comment-20 <p>It should be /a/ig, I believe, for global (i is ignore case, g is global)</p> Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:59:00 -0800 urn:uuid:2207fb49-afe9-4056-bbb2-b1c4edba2476 http://blog.infosauce.com/articles/2006/02/01/ruby-conveniences#comment-19