Question : Ruby string manipulation, easy enough?

I need to work with this string to return only the numbers...

$Name just deposited 20000000 in the bank.

I need to remove $Name just deposited and in the bank.

returning only:
20000000

Now please note that the deposit will change so if I can chomp off the name variable and the last of it that would be great.

$Name of course changes from person to person.

So something like deposit = $depstring.chomp($Name, " just deposited  ", " in the bank")

would be ideal I just cant figure out the syntax.

Answer : Ruby string manipulation, easy enough?

you could specify what you want to throw away
but I think it is easier to say what you want to keep, by using a regular expression inside a []

str = "$Name just deposited 20000000 in the bank."
puts str[/\d+/]
is all you need

if you want to add . and , this would be the regex
str = "$Name just deposited 200.000,00 in the bank."
regex = /[\d.,]+/
puts str[regex]

cheers

Geert