From: Phil Meier <phil.meier@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T16:29:59+09:00
Subject: Re: A method to search and cut in Ruby.

scomboni@gmail.com schrieb:
> On Jul 25, 7:05 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 25, 4:59 pm, scomb...@gmail.com wrote:
...
>> ...or did you want the leading whitespace chomped?
>>
>> irb(main):004:0> s.split( /\s*:\s*/ )
>> => ["Foo", "Bar"]
>> irb(main):005:0> s.split( /\s*:\s*/ ).last
>> => "Bar"
> 
> I was looking at this method as well. I was having trouble though as I
> know the left hand side column so for this example the Compression
> portion then the colon : the remainder could be anything for instance
> a description with lots of text and could also contain a additional
> colon.  At the shell prompt I could grep "Compression" | cut -d: -f2-
> and that would grab everything...

To get everything after the first colon you can use:
s =~ /^.*?:/
textAfterColon = $'.dup

To also get rid of the spaces directly after the first colon use this Regex:
s =~ /^.*?:\s*/
textAfterColon = $'.dup

The trick is to anchor the regex (i.e. using ^)

BR Phil