From: "Daniel Völkerts" <dvoelkerts@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T01:06:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubish Way of extracting elements

David A. Black wrote:

> You could match it to a regular expression, and grab the results in
> ()-expressions:
> 
>   str = "<165> Aug 16 17:01:35 localhost Just a test"
> 
>   pri, timestamp, device, msg =
>   /<(\d+)>\s+(\w+\s+\d+\s+[\d:]+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)/.match(str).captures
> 
> Another way would be to use scanf.  This has the advantage that you
> get your 165 as an integer (if that's important):
> 
>   require 'scanf'
>   pri, timestamp, device, msg = str.scanf("<%\d> %15c %s%*c %[\\S\\s]"
> 
> 
> (You might have to adjust either the regex or the format string
> depending on how consistent and predictable the lines are.)

Thanks a lot. Thats the way I would expect it. Simple and nice to 
understand. I'll try it.

Many regards.

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