From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T01:31:59+09:00
Subject: simple regexp help needed - pull phrase out of string

Hey folks.  I feel like this should be easy but it's been a long week
and my brain hurts.

If i have a string like this:

string = "pending: sent at Thu Oct 09 17:25:08 +0100 2008,
password:banana errors: couldn't find user with id 230"

and i want to pull out 'banana', what's an elegant way to do it?  The
password will always be followed by a space.

I can think of this:
string.match(/password:[^\s]+/)[0].gsub("password:","")

but it seems a bit clumsy and error prone.  Is there a nicer way?
(Passwords can contain non alphanumeric characters btw)
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