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Ruby: regex scanning in a case statement

Here’s a handy ruby snippet that might come in handy one day.

When the regex matches (input should end with " today"), you can directly grab the matched value using the special $1 variable.

case input
when /(.*)\stoday$/i then
  puts "Today: #{$1}"
end

I think you can see how you can bend this to your own needs.

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