From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-27T05:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to parse a "line"?

On Apr 26, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Martin Sharon wrote:

> Hi there:
>
> I have a line, the format is like this
> "num_of_item item1 item2...item_n" for example
>
> "3 Tokyo Newyork Paris"
>
> I want ruby parse this format, extract these keywords and save them in
> an array.
> I googled and search many forums, but can't find any matches.
>
> Would anyone give me any ideas??

If you just need to bust up the words via the spaces, this should  
probably work for you:

 >> items = "3 Tokyo Newyork Paris".split[1..-1]
=> ["Tokyo", "Newyork", "Paris"]

James Edward Gray II