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Exercise 1: Capture the Class Names

Practice extracting data contained within class tags using Ruby's regular expressions. Understand how to work with text input and apply regex patterns to isolate specific content between tags, reinforcing your skills in advanced Ruby topics.

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Problem

You’re given an input text that contains some data (alphabetical characters only). This data appears between two different types of tags. It appears between either the class tags or the object tags as shown:

  1. <class>Something</class>

  2. <object>SomeOtherThing</object>

Your task is to use a regular expression to extract the data enclosed within the class tags.

Example

Consider the input below:

<class>Hash</class> <object>true</object> <object>nil</object> <class>TrueClass</class>

The output should be:

[["Hash"],["TrueClass"]]

Try it yourself

Ruby
def extract_data(input_text)
  #Start your code here
  
  return result
end