Ruby Regexp group matching, assign variables on 1 line

Question

I\'m currently trying to rexp a string into multiple variables. Example string:

ryan_string = \"RyanOnRails: This is a test\"

I\'ve mat

Answer 1

You could use Match or =~ instead which would give you a single match and you could either access the match data the same way or just use the special match variables $1, $2, $3

Something like:

if ryan_string =~ /(^.*)(:)(.*)/i
   first = $1
   third = $3
end