On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Chris Gunnels wrote:
> > Ok I know that sounds newbish, but I don't want to match the entire > string. I just want to match the first 25 characters or so. > > I have a hash that looks like > > somestuff[:something] > > Now I want somestuff[:something] to equal a string. > > somestuff[:something] == 'sadfasdfsdfasdf' > > the problem is that somestuff[:something] will never match the entire > string, so I want to match the first 25 characters. > > Any ideas...I hope that made sense? somestuff[:something][0,25] = "asdfasdfasdf" Is one way. There's probably a ruby method to match N characters of a string similar to C's strncmp too. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
