From: Simon Schuster <significants@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T13:08:31+09:00
Subject: excessively verbose request for help with regex and arrays

text = "(20:29:55) awhilewhileaway: I also need to assemble the
cover/back, and figure out the innards of the aimlog
formatting/keyword searches"

what I want is essentially 3 fields, the text itself, the speaker
(stripped of the ":") and the date information, however as far as the
date information goes, it will be part of a short-stepped process,
which will only need to reference the previous one, so all data can
keep overwriting within two variables, as in: time_since_last -
time_current = time_it_took ... I think. I'm new to programming and
left math in highschool, so it's a weird (but very fun) place for my
mind to be. :) still working it out.

so I would like two of the fields of this array to be hashes..
array[0] being a hash and having a numerical value, array[1] being a
hash and having personA or personB value, and then array[2] being a
string. that works, I think...?

wow! I had no idea I knew this much when I started the e-mail. :) any
hints/solutions for me to play around with? it's the parentheses of
the regex that kind of has me stuck, mostly, as well as how to deal
with clock arithmetic when it rolls over at midnight, I foresee that
being confusing.