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?
There are a number of ways depending on your needs. In your case if you just want to match the beginning of the string Rails provides the starts_with method (Ruby 1.9 provides start_with, but not Ruby 1.8). For more complex matches Ruby has excellent regex support. Look at the ~= method. somestuff[:something].starts_with "whatever" somestuff[:something] ~= /^whatever.+/i -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
