From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2010-05-18T20:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Andrea Carmisciano
<andrea.carmisciano@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm newbie to ruby, but I try searching a lot for my problem...
>
> I need to extract from an enormous text file, in natural language, for
> two separated element in the same line and put them in a new file.
>
> Example:
> IIS - IPSIASAR L. DA VINCI (XN____01) - Responsabile: ENRICO FLAIANO
> VIA MONTE S. ROCCO, 15 PINETA SIGNORINI - 67100 L'AQUILA (AQ) - tel.
> 0862 22112 - fax. 0862 22300            email : ipias_aq@yahoo.it -
> url:http://www.istitutoleonardodavinciaq.191.it
>
> I need to extract the code (XN____01) and the relative email
> "ipias_aq@yahoo.it", put them in a CSV file or a sort of.
>
> May I do this in ruby?

You can do it using a capture group:
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/Manual/man-1.4/syntax.html#regexp
and examples here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html



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Luis Parravicini
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