Question

I’m having some problem replacing a partial of a string with another string.

I want this string "this-is-a-string.jpg" to be replaced with "this-is-a-hash.jpg".
The string value can be any value.

This is what I’ve so far.

str = "this-is-a-string.jpg"
str.gsub(/([a-z]+)[^\.]+?$/i, "hash")
# => "this-is-a-string.hash"

Answer 1

I played around with rubular and I came up with a regexp which works if you don’t mind adding a dot manually to the replacement.
Here is what I came up with

"this-is-a-string.jpg".gsub(/\w+\./, 'hash.')

So I guess you could make a simple function which replaces it like

def replace_string(string_to_replace, replacement)
  string_to_replace(/\w+\./, "#{replacement}.")
end

in ruby 1.9.2 I managed to extract the word “string” but I don’t know if that is of any use to you.

  /[-\w]+\-(?<word>(\w+))\.\w+/ =~ "this-is-a-string.jpg"
=> 0
  word
=> "string"

I hope I’ve helped you and given the information you needed