From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T19:18:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Trimming some string using ruby

Shekar Ls wrote:
> Hi guys,
>          I have the following information in a text file, which looks
> like this:
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 12203 Aug  6 01:02 app1.sql
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 12343 Aug  6 01:02 app2.sql
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 12238 Aug  6 01:02 app3.sql
> 
> I need to Trim the unwanted strings and my output should look like this:
> 
> app1.sql
> app2.sql
> app3.sql
> 
> I am not good at string functions...let me know if anyone can help me
> out!!
> 
> cheers


line = "-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 12203 Aug  6 01:02 app1.sql"

pieces = line.split()
puts pieces[-1]

--output:--
app1.sql
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