From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2010-12-05T05:16:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Split a string at a certain character

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Matt Slay <mattslay@jordanmachine.com> wrote:
> [part 1] followed by [part 2]
>
> which is to say:
>
> [part 1 = an integer or floating point number] followed by [part 2 = a
> single or double set of letters (a-z or A-Z), which is then folled by an
> integer]
>
> If there is a space between [part 1] and [part 2], it needs to be
> ignored.

Pick Axe page 70-75:

ruby-1.9.2-head > s = '12.7 AB36'
 => "12.7 AB36"
ruby-1.9.2-head > pattern = /\A([0-9.]+)\s*([a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]+)\Z/
 => /\A([0-9.]+)\s*([a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]+)\Z/
ruby-1.9.2-head > s.match pattern
 => #<MatchData "12.7 AB36" 1:"12.7" 2:"AB36">
ruby-1.9.2-head > $1
 => "12.7"
ruby-1.9.2-head > $2
 => "AB36"

HTH,

Peter