From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T07:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: format string for array question

Robert Keller wrote:
> I have a great deal of data that looks like the line below
>
> "db file parallel write            8816         391    25.49"
>
>
> The code to bring this into an array had a problem due to the spaces
> in the test string "db file parallel write" I'd be happy to turn "db
> file parallel write" into db_file_parallel_write (with underscores)
> first then just split the string, but all of the regex I've tried so
> far has had negative effects on the rest of the string with the
> numbers.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Robert
> rlkeller@yahoo.com

[rh-30-x86.irvspxl08:2182]gbystrit> irb
irb(main):001:0> s = "db file parallel write            8816         391    25.49"
=> "db file parallel write            8816         391    25.49"
irb(main):002:0> s.split(%r{(?:\s+)([\d.]+)}).reject {|s| s.empty?}
=> ["db file parallel write", "8816", "391", "25.49"]
irb(main):003:0>

=Gennady.