Ruby replace string with captured regex pattern

Question

I am having trouble translating this into Ruby.

Here is a piece of JavaScript that does exactly what I want to do:

function get_code(str){
    return str         


        

Answer 1

If you need to use a regex to filter some results, and THEN use only the capture group, you can do the following:

str = "Leesburg, Virginia  20176"
state_regex = Regexp.new(/,\s*([A-Za-z]{2,})\s*\d{5,}/)
# looks for the comma, possible whitespace, captures alpha,
# looks for possible whitespace, looks for zip

> str[state_regex]
=> ", Virginia  20176"

> str[state_regex, 1] # use the capture group
=> "Virginia"