From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T02:17:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple pattern matching

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 01:58 +0900, Minkoo Seo 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.

Here are a couple of ways:

s = 'node: { title: "15597629" label: "up[0,18 p:-2270.125]" }'
# => "node: { title: \"15597629\" label: \"up[0,18 p:-2270.125]\" }"

s =~ /title:\s("[^"]*")\slabel:\s("[^"]*")/
# => 8

$1
# => "\"15597629\""

$2
# => "\"up[0,18 p:-2270.125]\""

s.scan(/"[^"]*"/)
# => ["\"15597629\"", "\"up[0,18 p:-2270.125]\""]

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk