From: Jason Mayer <slamboy@...>
Date: 2006-12-13T02:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

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On 12/12/06, Dav Jones <kakaze@talk21.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I've got it reading in a file and checking each line against a
> regular expression.
>
> How would I go about taking individual sections of a line?
> i.e. if the word 'example:' appears on a line then it takes that and a
> few characters before or after it (it will be something specific its
> just the question is in general here) so for
> blah blah blah example: twenty blah blah
> it returns me 'example: twenty'
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Complete nuby here, but I'll give it a shot:

example = "blah blah example: twenty."
re = /example: .+[^ \t\n\r\f]/
stuff = re.match(example)
puts stuff

Output:
C:\ruby\programs>ruby regex2.rb
example: twenty.

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