From: Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T05:25:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Help: Efficient regular expression

Divya Badrinath wrote:
> 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

i mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.
> 
> 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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