From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T07:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp help needed

On 4/27/07, rpardee@gmail.com <rpardee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I need to parse lines that look like this:
>
> <lines>
> 1 'Not qualified' 2 'Overquota' 3 'Qualified'/
> 1 'SSI' 2 'Mall Facility'/
> 1 'Real Interview' 2 'Practice Interview'/
> </lines>
>
> So I've got N sets of <<digits>><<space>><<quote-delimited-label>> on
> each line.  I want to grab each of the digits & labels, but I'm having
> trouble w/the repetition stuff.  Below is a simple script that doesn't
> work--it grabs the first set, but seems to ignore the rest.
>
> str = "1 'Not qualified' 2 'Overquota' 3 'Qualified'"
> rgx = /((\d+)\s+(\'[^']+?\'))+/i
> m = rgx.match(str)
> unless m.nil?
>    m.captures.each {|c| puts(c)}
> end
>


r = %r/(\d+)\s+('[^']*')/
s = "1 'Not qualified' 2 'Overquota' 3 'Qualified'"

s.scan(r)          #=> [["1", "'Not qualified'"], ["2",
"'Overquota'"], ["3", "'Qualified'"]]



Blessings,
TwP