From: "Rüdiger Bahns" <ruedi@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T22:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Trimming some string using ruby

Bertram Scharpf schrieb:
  > As the file size will vary in width and the file names could
> contain spaces this will be a little bit safer:
> 
>   l = "-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 12238 Aug  6 01:02 app3.sql"
>   filename = (l.split nil, 6).last[ 13..-1]
> 
> Bertram

Why not just

   filename = (l.split nil, 9)[-1]

?

R.