Here's a slightly more flexible approach using the match
method. With this, you can extract more than one string:
s = "<ants> <pants>"
matchdata = s.match(/<([^>]*)> <([^>]*)>/)
# Use 'captures' to get an array of the captures
matchdata.captures # ["ants","pants"]
# Or use raw indices
matchdata[0] # whole regex match: "<ants> <pants>"
matchdata[1] # first capture: "ants"
matchdata[2] # second capture: "pants"
A simpler scan would be:
String1.scan(/<(\S+)>/).last
You can use a regular expression for that pretty easily…
Allowing spaces around the word (but not keeping them):
str.match(/< ?([^>]+) ?>\Z/)[1]
Or without the spaces allowed:
str.match(/<([^>]+)>\Z/)[1]
"<name> <substring>"[/.*<([^>]*)/,1]
=> "substring"
No need to use scan
, if we need only one result.
No need to use Python's match
, when we have Ruby's String[regexp,#]
.
See: http://ruby-doc.org/core/String.html#method-i-5B-5D
Note: str[regexp, capture] ? new_str or nil
Source: Stackoverflow.com