How do I remove all characters in a string until a substring is matched, in Ruby?

Question

Say I have a string: Hey what\'s up @dude, @how\'s it going?

I\'d like to remove all the characters before@how\'s.

Answer 1

An easy way to get only the part you are interested in.

>> s="Hey what's up @dude, @how's it going?"
=> "Hey what's up @dude, @how's it going?"
>> s[/@how.*$/i]
=> "@how's it going?"

If you really need to change the string object, you could always do s=s[...].