[ruby-core:87574] Yes idiom to shorten a long regex

Hello,

I have some data that I would like to parse with a regex. The raw data looks like so:

9.028: I:4551 (   0.095   0.096   0.136 ) T:4551 (   0.095   0.096   0.098   0.117   0.136   0.136 )
14.066: I:4601 (   0.095   0.096   5.344 ) T:9152 (   0.095   0.096   0.098   0.119   4.352   5.344 )
19.099: I:4609 (   0.094   0.096   0.132 ) T:13761 (   0.094   0.096   0.098   0.123   4.352   5.344 )
24.033: I:4528 (   0.093   0.095   0.130 ) T:18289 (   0.094   0.096   0.098   0.124   3.344   5.344 )

I can extract the data that I want with the following:

^(\d+\.\d+): I:\d+\s+\(\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+\).+\(\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+\)$

I can even name the fields with the longer:

^(?<offset_secs>\d+\.\d+): I:\d+\s+\(\s+(?<median_stall>\d+\.\d+)\s+(?<p90_stall>\d+\.\d+)\s+(?<max_stall>\d+\.\d+)\s+\).+\(\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+\)$

But that's a long ugly regex that repeats the {capture+whitespace} element (\d+\.\d+)\s+  three times, then six times 

 Is there a Ruby regex way to simplify/clarify the regex so that it explicitly shows that the capture+whitespace is repeated three times then six ?




thanks,

Peter



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