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  1. str = "John: hey, what's your name?.. :haha \n Stella: :foo :xx: my name is ... stella :xx:"
  2. ary = [":haha", ":xx:", ":foo", ":bar"]
  3. print str.gsub(Regexp.new("#{ary.join('|')}")) { |w| "(.*)" }.gsub( /(?>\(\.\*\)|[^\w ]+)/, "(.*)").gsub(/\(\.\*\)(?>\s*\(\.\*\))*/,"(.*)")
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 7464KB
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Standard input is empty
stdout 
John(.*) hey(.*) what(.*)s your name(.*) Stella(.*) my name is (.*) stella (.*)
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language:
Ruby (ruby 2.5.5)
created:
10 years ago
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