Get substring after the first = symbol in Ruby

Question

Purely out of curiosity, is there a more elegant way to simply get the substring after the first = symbol in a string? The following works to give back name=b

Answer 1

Probably not the Ruby-way (it's a bit cryptic), but you could do this:

string[/=/]
$'
=> "name=bob"

or

/=/ =~ string
$'
=> "name=bob"

$' is a global holding the string after a successful match. It's nil if nothing is matched, too!