From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T09:13:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie regexp question

On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:37 PM, James Calivar wrote:

> What can I replace the simple copy statement (output_file << line)  
> with
> in order to get what I want?

My wife, Dana Gray, is still learning Ruby so I gave her this problem  
as a test.  ;)  She suggests the code below.

James Edward Gray II

DATA.each do |line|
   line =~ /^(\w)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.+)/
   p [$1, $2, $3, $4]
end

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R [01]	R1	The system shall support "emergency call processing"
R [02]	R1	The system shall support "local call processing"
R [08]	F	The system shall provide a command-line user interface
R [723]	F	The system shall provide 6 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces
R [11]	F	The system shall support VoIP networks
R [398]	R1	The system shall contain 2 control boards
O [327]	I	The system should support hotswapping of all internal boards
R [19]	I	The system shall be able to detect transmission errors
R [631]	F	The system shall continue processing data as long as a call  
is active.