From: Park Heesob <phasis68@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T18:43:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help

Hi,


>From: "Marcus Bristav" <marcus.bristav@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Regexp help
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:04:16 +0900
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a string of the form
>
>2h 3m
>
>or
>
>3m 2h
>
>or
>
>2h 3minutes
>
>or
>
>2hour 3min
>
>and so on
>
>Is there a smart regexp one liner that could produce
>
>[2, 3]
>
>If anyone types just for example
>
>2
>
>than that should produce [2]
>
>for any of the above input? I know that there will be an m or an h.
>
>/Marcus
>

str = "2h 3m" # or somthing
str.scan(/(\d+)(\w*)/).sort_by{|x|x[1]}.collect{|x|x[0].to_i}

Regards,

Park Heesob