From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-08-15T16:16:56+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp issue on parsing from file

7stud -- wrote:
> Ben's regex is better, and once you've done the matching, if your regex 
> has a group around the desired information, you can retrieve the desired 
> information--there is no need to slice and dice the string to extract 
> the information:
> 

On the other hand, if you would rather avoid regex's altogether and 
stick to string slicing and dicing, you could do this:

count = 1

IO.foreach("data.txt") do |line|
   if line[0, 1] == "[":
     first_piece = line.split(" ", 2)[0]
     puts "#{count}: #{first_piece[2...-2]}"
     count += 1
   end
end



--output:--
1: Name
2: NameTwo

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