From: "Joec_49@..." <joec_49@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T01:42:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some help with regexp

$~ has the matched result from the most recent regexp. Convert to a string thusly

($~).to_s

Joe

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On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 
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