From: Tony Targonski <Tony.Targonski@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T02:16:03+09:00
Subject: Re: pattern matching question

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From: Automat.Svet@gmail.com [mailto:Automat.Svet@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:05 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: pattern matching question

I' mtrying to match a pattern like this one : 297,12^[2 where 297,12 is
the grand total.

Thanks in advance
automat_svet
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your_text.scan(/([0-9]+,[0-9]+)\^\[2/)

Will return [["297,12"]], so you might want to stick a .flatten[0] in
there if you know you'll have only a single match.

--Tony