From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-03T19:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some help with regexp

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Eyal Eizenberg
<eyal.eizenberg@samanage.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to do it so that the $& will contain "MARCOCHEN"?
>
>
> Isaac Sanders wrote in post #1024664:
>> You are getting that because you have spaces in it. You can get the same
>> result if you use /(\S+)/ and using the $1 variable, which should
>> contain
>> "MARCOCHEN".

Even better - you don't need $&:

irb(main):001:0> s="Laptop MARCOCHEN (192.168.5.73)"
=> "Laptop MARCOCHEN (192.168.5.73)"
irb(main):002:0> s[/\A\s*\w+\s+(\w+)/, 1]
=> "MARCOCHEN"

or

irb(main):005:0> s[/\A\s*\S+\s+(\w+)/, 1]
=> "MARCOCHEN"

Kind regards

robert


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