From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T03:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Sysadmin

On 10/2/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:17:24AM +0900, Ron Mr. wrote:
> > I need to write a script that pulls usernames our of a file that is
> > formatted like the following.
> >
> > [snip]
>
> Hope this helps:
>
> % cat parse.rb
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>
> DATA.each do |line|
>   if md = line.match(/^\"([^"]+)\"\s*(.*)$/)
>     name, remaining_fields = md[1], md[2]
>     [snip]
>

Just curious, why do you backslash escape the double-quote marks? I
don't think they're special inside a regex, and the match works
without the backslashes.