From: Shandy Nantz <shandybleu@...>
Date: 2008-11-14T07:49:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Matching

Peter Szinek wrote:
> Here is a 'full' solution that should cover these cases:
> 
>  >> "Colorado Springs, CO[COS]"[/(\w|\s)+, [A-Z]{2}\[(.+?)\]/,2]
> => "COS"
>  >> "Denver, CO[DEN]"[/(\w|\s)+, [A-Z]{2}\[(.+?)\]/,2]
> => "DEN"

I have had to refine my search a little, mostly because getting the last 
four characters turned out not to be a simple thing when using regular 
expressions. I have people entering text via an auto_complete_text_field 
in a rails app; my issues is that on my local machine there parameters 
get passed like this:

Denver, CO[DEN]   or   Colorado Springs, CO[COS]

However, up on the server the parameters get passed like this:

"  Denver, CO[DEN]   "    or   "  Colorado Springs, CO[COS]   "

and for whatever reason (my guess being because regex is a pain in the 
a#%), simply replacing the spaces dident work and cause massive amounts 
of havoic. So I used the code found up above and all was well in the 
world....

Then a new hick-up was encountered:

Toronto, Canada[YYZ]

As you can imagine the regex wouldn't ketch this expression. So I tried 
this:

    params[:airport][:city].gsub(/$\s/, "")
      [/(\w|\s)+, [A-Z]{2}|[A-Z][a-z]{1,}\[(.+?)\]/,2]

And al' bee it caught the Torono, Canada[YYZ]. Now, however, it fails to 
get the Denver, CO[DEN]. I must have a complete lack of understanding 
when it comes to regex because I always thought that the "|" in the 
above statement meant "or", as in, try and match TWO A-Z OR one A-Z 
FOLLOWED BY one or more a-z. I guess I am drawing a total blank because 
I look at the revised code above and I think it should match all the 
above cases and I cannot figure out for the life of me where it is 
failing. Can someon ehelp, thanks

-S
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