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title	kind	slug	created_at	tags
Ruby: regex scanning in a case statement	article	ruby-regex-scanning-in-a-case-statement	2012-05-22	Ruby snippet

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.

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

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