From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T02:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie qustion


On Aug 1, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Robert Smith wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Robert Smith wrote:
>>
>>>    if line =~ /^ID* (.*?) = \s* " (.*?) "/x

>>    next unless line =~ /^ID(\S+) "(.*?)"/
>
> I tried what you said but nothing gets stored in the table...and i'm
> nothing seeing why.  do you see it?

change the space to \s+

your original regexp didn't work because there is no =, but I agree  
with eric that your use of /x makes it too complex.