From: Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T05:39:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Help: Efficient regular expression

Florian A��mann wrote:
> Hi Divya, use
> 
> string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
> 
> see String.[]
> 
> Regards
> Florian

string = "root     14051 14033  3 08:39 pts/2    00:00:00 /bin/bash"
with this,
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/

$1 gives me 14051
and
$3 gives me /bin/bash

what i am trying to do is to get $1 and $3 into a hash.

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