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Subject: Re: Parsing strings
From: Dan German <germans88@ h . m
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:58:18 +0900
References: 255980 255984 255985 255989
In-reply-to: 255989

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Dan German wrote:
>> One problem, the substring contains a ?, and is left in the resultant 
>> string
>>
>>   
> It would help if you'd show an actual string you have and what you'd
> like it to become. If you have two examples, even better.

It's actually a youtube url: ex. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8AIhbqPHo
I'm trying to remove the watch? string; the slice method works, but it 
would be better if you could use something like gsub

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