From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T07:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie regexp question

On 7/5/07, Skt <scottjourand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Newbs here, decided to take today to learn regular expression.
>
> What i want to do is take a sentence and just pull two things from it. Example:
>
> "My address is 68 Ohio"
>
> I want to pull address and 68 from the sentence but that pesky is is getting in my way(or im too newb)
>
> "My address is 68 ohio" =~ /\w{7}\d{2}/ is what i tried but continuous nils. Any help?

>> m = "My address is 68 Ohio".match(/(\w{7}).*(\d{2})/)
=> #<MatchData:0x33c17c>
>> m[1]
=> "address"
>> m[2]
=> "68"

But what that actually says is 'Match a word 7 characters long,
followed by zero or more matches of any character (except newline),
then match two digits.

If you really wanted to pull address and 68, you'd want:

>> m = "My address is 68 Ohio".match(/(address).*(68)/)
=> #<MatchData:0x314438>
>> m[1]
=> "address"
>> m[2]
=> "68"

Hope that helps.