From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T09:00:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Just a question about regualar expression in Ruby. Is there a way to
> check in each line of a document for always beginning with "23430000"
> and somewhere on that same line another string 'CodeRed'?
>
> line1: 23430000 @#$#$3455000CodeRed 24AAWERE 740000000
>
> This is what I have so far when I import each textdata from another
> file.
>
>
> textdata.should =~ /23430000/ |CodeRed/
>
> ...the pipe was supposed to determine if CodeRed exists somewhere after
> the identity code 23430000. However, it doesn't work like this. Also for
> my code I am not using OR logic with it.

I just simply have to pimp http://www.rubular.com/

I don't think that I have closed that browser tab containing it in weeks.
Its killer feature is the ability to supply your own test data.
http://www.rubular.com

/^23430000.*CodeRed.*$/