I am using ruby on rails
I have
article.id = 509969989168Q000475601
I would like the output to be
article.id = 68Q000475601
basically want to get rid of all before it gets to 68Q
the numbers in front of the 68Q can be various length is there a way to remove up to "68Q"
it will always be 68Q and Q is always the only Letter is there a way to say remove all characters from 2 digits before "Q"
I'd use:
article.id[/68Q.*/]
Which will return everything from 68Q to the end of the string.
article.id.match(/68Q.+\z/)[0]
You can do this easily with the split method:
'68Q' + article.id.split('68Q')[1]
This splits the string into an array based on the delimiter you give it, then takes the second element of that array. For what it's worth though, @theTinMan's solution is far more elegant.
