From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T13:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie regexp question

>
> "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?
>
>

Here is something like what you tried that will skip the 'is'.

s = "My address is 68 ohio"
p s.scan(/\w{7}|\d{2}/)

OR

p s.scan(/address|\d+/)

Harry

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