From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T06:25:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Help: Efficient regular expression

On 7/10/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> > On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Divya Badrinath wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >    cols      = string.split
> >    sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
> Very interesting James, I seem to be rather extreme and
>
>   sec, last =  string.split.values_at(1, -1)
> might be a tad to long for one line in your style, however Ruby syntax
> just supports this marvelous syntax :)
>
>    sec, last = string.split.
>                        values_at(1, -1)

What is your terminal width, 30?