From: Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T05:20:51+09:00
Subject: Help: Efficient regular expression

string = "root     14051 14033  3 08:39 pts/2    00:00:00 /bin/bash"

i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string

can someone  help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.

i am a beginner, i wrote
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/

i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.

Please help.

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