Question

How to extract all the substrings between single quotation marks in Ruby

Answer 1

str = "I like 'Ruby', 'C', 'Python', and 'Java'."

matches = str.scan(/'([^']*)'/).flatten

p matches


# run:
# 
# ["Ruby", "C", "Python", "Java"]
#

 

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Answer 2

str = "I like 'Ruby', 'C', 'C#', 'Python', and 'Java'."

matches = str.scan(/'([^']*)'/).map(&:first)

p matches


# run:
# 
# ["Ruby", "C", "C#", "Python", "Java"]
#

 

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Answer 3

text = <<~TEXT
  User selected 'apple'
  Then selected 'orange'
  Finally selected 'banana'
TEXT

results = text.scan(/'([^']*)'/).flatten

puts results


# run:
# 
# apple
# orange
# banana
#

 

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