From: "rpardee@..." <rpardee@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T07:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp help needed

Ah--that's the magic!  Thanks guys!

-Roy

On Apr 27, 3:15 pm, "Tim Pease" <tim.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/07, rpar...@gmail.com <rpar...@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