From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-08-15T22:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp issue on parsing from file

At 2009-08-15 03:16AM, "7stud --" wrote:
>  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]}"

Or replace those 2 lines with:
        puts %Q{#{count}: #{ line.split('"')[1] }}

>       count += 1
>     end
>  end
>  
>  
>  
>  --output:--
>  1: Name
>  2: NameTwo
>  


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