From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T04:54:58+09:00
Subject: Re: regex eating my characters

On Jan 18, 1:04 pm, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 12:59 PM, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello
> > I am having trouble with this regex
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> > My pattern is
> > group 1= any word
> > Group 2= any word
> > group 3 = any sentence
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> > irb(main):001:0> pattern= Regexp.new('(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)')
> > => /(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)/
> > irb(main):002:0> pattern.match("list test")
> > => #<MatchData:0x2e8cdc4>
> > irb(main):003:0> $2
> > => "tes"
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> > YOu can see that it just ate the last t from $2. dunnno why.
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> Nah, it's in $3... if it wasn't available for your (.+), there
> wouldn't be a match. Did you mean (.*) at the end?
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thanks