From: Dominique Plante <dominique.plante@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T07:25:52+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the last word in each line

in irb:
>>r = /\w+$/
=> /\w+$/
>>s = "bad boy"
=> "bad boy"
>>md = s.match(r)
=> #<MatchData:0x2cae00c>
>>md[0]
=> "boy"

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Is there a prettier way to read a file and return the last word in each 
> line?
> 
> Here's my go:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Joe


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