From: Fosiul Alam Date: 2012-08-16T04:00:00+09:00 Subject: Re: string processing hi I am very new to ruby what would be the syntax ?? i get output like this uk-xxxxxxx-Z15A14 Adding uk-xxxxx-Z15A14 (uk-xxxx-Z15A14) as "Generic SNMP-enabled Host" using SNMP v1 with community "public" Success - new device-id: (26) i will be able to parse the line by cmd each cmd.each do |item| if ( item =~ /\((\d)\)/ ) getnumber = item end end will it work ?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.