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Asked: 2026-06-14T17:28:49+00:00

I have the following text in ruby, i want to extract only the part

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I have the following text in ruby, i want to extract only the part between —- and —- (the content) but I’m not able to do that, I tried with regex using:

mystring.match(/^-*(.*?)^-*/m)[1]

this is the text:

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try…

    mystring.match(/-+(.*?)-+/m)[1]

    RubyFiddle.

    However, this will break if there is a - in your contents. It would probably be more robust if you accepted a bare minimum, such as 10 - characters. You can use the {10,} quantifier to do this.

    mystring.match(/(-{10,})(.*?)\1/m)[2]

    RubyFiddle.

    This version also ensures the number of - matched are balanced (if it matched 16 - characters at the start, it must match 16 - characters at the end too).

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