How can i get double quoted characters from a string in ruby on rails

Question

If I have a string in a file:

str = hi "Sonal"

I am able to fetch this line of file in a string. Now I want to fetch the characters between the double quotes. i.e. Sonal. How can I do it in ruby?

Answer 1

You can use regular expression like this,

given_string[/\".*\"/]

This will match the characters under quotes.

Answer 2

or without regexp try something like this s[s.index('"')..s.rindex('"')]

Answer 3

try the following

'hi "Sonai"'.match(/"(?<inside_quote>.+)"/)[:inside_quote]