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Quickly Match First Instance Of A Regex In Ruby
I recently saw a clever Ruby idiom to return the first regex match within a string in Ruby:
irb> x = "this is a 1234 test" irb> x[/\d+/] => "1234" irb> x[/\w+/] => "this"
