From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T02:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple pattern matching

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On 3/27/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi group.
>
> Sorry for newbie question. Given the line like
>
> 'node: { title: "15597629" label: "up[0,18 p:-2270.125]" }'
>
> How can I parse the above string into "15597629" and "up[0,18
> p:-2270.125]"? There are numbers in the first "..." and a-z, :, [, and
> ] in the second "..." part.
>
> Thanks in advance.




 'node: { title: "15597629" label: "up[0,18 p:-2270.125]" }' =3D~
%r{(".*?").*?(".*?")}

seems a reasonable way to do it. Move the quotes outside the () if you do
not want them excluded
from the results.
Access the data with

$1, $2 or Regexp.last_match[1], ...[2]

Hope that helps
Robert

P.S.
Regexp questions are never newbee ;-)
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