From: Tom Armitage <tom.armitage@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T18:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help

But, of course, that *won't* capture "3m 2h", like you described...

On 29/09/06, Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ah neat, Jordan, and more elegant than parsing an
> arrayh of regexps:)
>
> --- MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Marcus Bristav wrote:
> > > Is there a smart regexp one liner that could
> > produce
> > >
> > > [2, 3]
> >
> > r  = Regexp.new(/(\d+)h.*(\d+)m/)
> > s1 = "2h 3m"
> > s2 = "2h 3minutes"
> > s3 = "2hour 3min"
> > m  = r.match(s1)
> > p [m[1].to_i, m[2].to_i] # => [2, 3]
> > m  = r.match(s2)
> > p [m[1].to_i, m[2].to_i] # => [2, 3]
> > m  = r.match(s3)
> > p [m[1].to_i, m[2].to_i] # => [2, 3]
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jordan
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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