yes, you are right, much nicer to use the specific Array.last<br>It's so nice to call Array ring ring ring Hi Array give me your last element please and Array responds.<br><br>marekj<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Rogers</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.rogers@shaw.ca">paul.rogers@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I much prefer using<span class="q"><br>words = sentences.split # or add (' ') to make split on whitespace explicit.<br></span>last_word = words.last<div><span class="e" id="q_113b147fbd245eee_3"><br><br><br>----- Original Message -----
<br>From: marekj <<a href="mailto:marekj.com@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">marekj.com@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:40 am<br>Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] How to pick the last word in the sentence
<br>To: <a href="mailto:wtr-general@rubyforge.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wtr-general@rubyforge.org</a><br><br>> Hm...how about this:<br>> <br>> sentences =<<eof
<br>> some words and more words then some more words and the last one <br>> word in a<br>> sentence1.<br>> Next sentence and more words and the last one word in a sentence2.<br>> and here too<br>> and then some more here
<br>> and last word of the last sentence.<br>> eof<br>> words = sentences.split # or add (' ') to make split on <br>> whitespace explicit.<br>> last_word = words[-1] #last element in Array is your last word
<br>> in a heredoc<br>> <br>> take a look at String.split goodness.<br>> <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000818" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000818</a><br>> <br>> marekj<br>> <br>> <br>> On 7/9/07, sapna <<a href="mailto:forum-watir-users@openqa.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
forum-watir-users@openqa.org</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Hi All,<br>> ><br>> > Pleas can you help me finding out the last word in the <br>> sentence displayed<br>> > on the web page. Have look at the HTML snippet.
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