Dan - that was great... worked like a charm. Thanks!
On May 6, 1:26 pm, "Dan Dorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Essentially I would like to do:
> > "Mr. Mike Smith" -> "Mike Smith"
>
> > when I use: row[0].delete "Mr"
>
> Since neither JS nor Prototype has a delete method for string objects,
> I assume you're referring to Ruby's String::delete method. That's
> probably better suited for a Ruby or Rails list, (since this list is
> specifically geared towards Prototype) but I'll see if I can help (I'm
> not a Ruby expert by any means).
>
> > The string becomes "ike Smith" for some reason.
>
> Here's what delete does, according to the Ruby docs:
>
> "Returns a copy of str with all characters in the intersection of its
> arguments deleted."
>
> That means that when you pass, for example, "Mr" to delete, it's going
> to delete /every/ "M" and /every/ "r" it finds in the string. As far
> as I can tell, in your case you should actually be getting ". ike
> Smith" back from delete (not "ike Smith"). If you pass "Mr." to
> delete, then every period character is going to be removed as well,
> giving you " ike Smith" (note the leading space). Passing "Mr. " (with
> a trailing space) gets you "ikeSmith". I'm sure you can tell that
> delete's probably not the method you need ;)
>
> You could probably use sub, though, which seems to do closer to what
> you're trying to accomplish. You need to pass the string you're
> looking for and what you want to replace it with. For example:
>
> row[0].sub 'Mr. ', '' => "Mike Smith"
>
> Note that you can also use regexes instead of string arguments, in
> which case the example Kangax provided will work perfectly.
>
> The Ruby docs for sub are at
> <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000831>. (You might
> want to check out gsub as well.)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> :Dan
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