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String extraction with RegEx -- replaces match
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| str = "GB is not Great Britain" | |
| matches = str.match /(Great.*)/ | |
| matches[1] | |
| # => "Great Britain" | |
| str[/(Great.*)/, 1] | |
| # => "Great Britain" |
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