From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2011-04-22T11:08:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing text

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Good Afternoon,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Cyril Jose <cyril_jose@ymail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have a file where I need to parse information from. The format of the
> first line is something like this:
>
> ">ruby ruby |ruby|ruby ruby|text_i_want| test test"
>
> I was thinking converting this line into an array, using the .split(//)
>

You got close - this should work for you

.split(/\|/)[3]

That will return the 4th group of text for you

John

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