rexml and regex

[Chris Dancy]

I want to get the text of an attribute and perform a regex on it ... something like the following

<person name="bearsANDfish" />

And I want to use ruby's wonderful regex to remove the capitalized "AND" ... something like...

tempName = element.attributes.get_attribute("name").value

if tempName =~ /\w(AND)\w/
     element.attributes.get_attribute("name").replace($1,"")
end

any ideas?

[Chris Dancy]

I actually solved this problem trying to debug it ... here is how you do it .

element.attributes.get_attribute("name").value.gsub!($1,"")  

I assumed ".value" just returned the string but it in fact actually returns the pointer(for lack of a better term) to the string. It returns the node itself to work on. Sweet deal.