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Easy Ruby Regex - the shortest regex find, and replace methods in Ruby.
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easy_string_capture.rb
#index capture groups:
url = "https://gist.github.com/ryancastro/whatever.git"
p url[/(.*)\/whatever.git/, 1]
p url.gsub(/(.*)\/whatever.git/, '\1')
#named capture groups:
url = "https://gist.github.com/ryancastro/whatever.git"
p url[/(?<url>.*)\/whatever.git/, "url"]
p url.gsub(/(?<url>.*)\/whatever.git/, '\k<url>')
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