From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-08-07T01:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Trimming some string using ruby

At 2009-08-06 02:31AM, "Shekar Ls" wrote:
>           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

If you have the whole contents of the file in a variable, then:

text = <<END
-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
END
    
files = text.scan(/\S+$/)  
puts files

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