From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-16T23:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing String Data

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Bob Theslob <rorcd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am very new to Ruby and I have an issue that I cannot seem to
> solve.
>
> Parse a data string, excise four digits (non- adjoined)  in the middle
> of the string, and then assemble a second string using the data.
>
> As an example, my fisrt string has text “Test Part 123 G 477”, I want to
> assemble a new string  “AABB123477”.
>
> What I do not know how to do is parse the text to get the numbers.  Once
> having them I have had no problems assembling the new string.

If you're only interested in the numbers, using scan is another option:

>> "Test Part 123 G 477".scan(/\d+/)
=> ["123", "477"]

HTH,
Ammar