Get substring after the first = symbol in Ruby

Question

Purely out of curiosity, is there a more elegant way to simply get the substring after the first = symbol in a string? The following works to give back name=b

Answer 1

split(char) is another function which can be used. For instance, we want to get substring before char ':' from "answer:computer" then, we can use "answer:computer".split(':')[0].So, we would get result as "answer".