Parsing / Extracting Text from String in Rails?
- by user641116
I have a string in Rails, e.g. "This is a Twitter message. #books War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I love this book!", and I want to parse the text and extract only certain phrases, like "War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy".
Is this a matter of using Regex and lifting the text between "#books" to "."?
What if there's no structure to the message,…