From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-09-13T07:18:44+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the last word in each line


  Hello !

> File.read(some_file).to_a.map { |l| line.split.last }
> 
> What if I wanted to search the lines (based on a regex) and return the
> last word in each line that satisfied the search criteria?

  What about

File.read(some_file).to_a.map { |l| line.split.select {|v| v =~
/regex/}.last }

	Vince