From: Diogo Lisboa <diogoslisboa@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T05:47:09+09:00
Subject: Re: selected field assignment

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm grabbing the owner and file names from `find . -perm -g+r -ls`
> which has ls -dgils output like,
>
>  6744065        8 -rw-r--r--    1 kleb     users          289 Nov 30
> 2007 Ruby/README
>
> with something like,
>
>  find_result.each_line do |line|
>    fields = line.split
>    user_name, file_name = fields[4], fields.last
>
> I've also played with,
>
>  _,_,_,_,user,_,_,_,_,_,file = a.split
>
> But both leave me thinking there is a better way without resorting
> to a regex?

owner, file = string.split.values_at(4, -1)

It relies on the output being the same format. For other cases a regex
would be better.



Diogo