From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T07:57:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to extract number with hyphen

On 5/29/07, bcparanj@gmail.com <bcparanj@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a text with "foo 01-02" in a string. I want to extract foo
> 01-02 using regexp. reg = /foo (\d+)/ only extracts foo with numbers
> when there is no hyphen.
>
> reg = /foo (\d{1,})|(\-)|(\d{1,})/   only extracts foo 01. TIA.
>

"foo 01-02" =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)/

puts $1    #=> "01"
puts $2    #=> "02"