I have a string that looks like this :

ts = "^LThe beginning of the sentence"

I want to remove the "^L"

I've tried

ts.gsub!(/^[\^L]/,'')

which removes the "^", but I need to remove the "^L" when they are
together and at the beginning of the sentence.

Any is welcome


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Robert Keller
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On Nov 20, 11:18 am, Robert Keller <rlkel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a string that looks like this :
>
> ts = "^LThe beginning of the sentence"
>
> I want to remove the "^L"
>
> I've tried
>
> ts.gsub!(/^[\^L]/,'')
>
> which removes the "^", but I need to remove the "^L" when they are
> together and at the beginning of the sentence.

irb(main):001:0> ts = "^LThe beginning of the sentence"
=> "^LThe beginning of the sentence"
irb(main):002:0> ts.sub /^\^L/, ''
=> "The beginning of the sentence"

Also:
1) Do you really mean ^ (start of line) or do you mean \A (start of
string)?
2) No need to use gsub if there's only ever going to be a single
match.

Yours doesn't work because characters in the square brackets can't be
escaped. Instead of matching that character, it will match "\", "^",
or "L". Phrogz has the right answer; just thought I'd explain why his
works and yours doesn't.

Ben

On Nov 20, 2007 11:18 AM, Robert Keller <rlkeller@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have a string that looks like this :
>
> ts = "^LThe beginning of the sentence"
>
> I want to remove the "^L"
>
> I've tried
>
> ts.gsub!(/^[\^L]/,'')
>
> which removes the "^", but I need to remove the "^L" when they are
> together and at the beginning of the sentence.
>
> Any is welcome
>
>
> --
> Robert Keller
> --------------------------------------------------
> robert.keller@yahoo.com
>
>
>



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Ben Atkin wrote:
> Yours doesn't work because characters in the square brackets can't be
> escaped. Instead of matching that character, it will match "\", "^",
> or "L". Phrogz has the right answer; just thought I'd explain why his
> works and yours doesn't.
>
> Ben
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 11:18 AM, Robert Keller <rlkeller@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a string that looks like this :
>>
>> ts = "^LThe beginning of the sentence"
>>
>> I want to remove the "^L"
>>
>> I've tried
>>
>> ts.gsub!(/^[\^L]/,'')
>>
>> which removes the "^", but I need to remove the "^L" when they are
>> together and at the beginning of the sentence.
>>
>> Any is welcome
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert Keller
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> robert.keller@yahoo.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>