Derivation for capacitance of cylindrical capacitor

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I don't understand how they got from the previous step to the next step of the derivation circled in red:
Textbook page for Example 25.1, The Cylindrical Capacitor, with a diagram of a solid cylinder inside a coaxial cylindrical shell and end-view field lines, plus the potential difference integral V_b - V_a = -2k_e λ ln(b/a), with the step from the integral to the logarithm circled in red.

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They replaced ##E_r## with the expression for the radial electric field for a very long rod in the region outside the rod. See equation 23.8 in the textbook that they quote.
 
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kuruman said:
They replaced ##E_r## with the expression for the radial electric field for a very long rod in the region outside the rod. See equation 23.8 in the textbook that they quote.
Thank you @kuruman !