From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T18:12:15+09:00
Subject: Re: simple regexp help needed - pull phrase out of string

Max Williams wrote:
> >     irb(main):007:0> str.scan(/password:([^\s]+)/)[0]
> >     => ["banana"]
>
> Aha, 'scan', that's great thanks.

Yeah, though not really the most sensible in this case. Also you'd have to do 
[0][0] to acutally get "banana". I'd only use scan when you actually want 
multiple matches. Here I'd use match or String#[]:
string[/password:(\S+)/, 1]
=> "banana"

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