From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T20:42:24+09:00
Subject: Simpler case: String.scan (Regexp again...)

Hi,

I did a test with a simple string, the result is quite surprising for me:

line="Hello World!"
p line.scan(/..((.).(.)).(..)../)

>>[["llo", "l", "o", "Wo"]]

NOT
>>[["l","o"],"Wo"]

How can I get the latter?

Thanks!!
Shannon





>From: "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: String.scan (Regexp again...)
>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:38:34 +0900
>
>Hi gurus,
>
>I used the following regexp to parse a text file:
>
>p=/.{4}((.{3})(.{6})(.{3})).{17}(.{16}).{13}(.).{33}(.{7}).{17}((.{3})(.{6})(.{3}))/
>
>line="PFPT0YH100010                    NUT-SPRG-EXPN          980101G     A
>00001000010001WA100001050000000                            OYH100010
>     "
>result=line.match(p)
>p result >>
>
>[["0YH100010   ", "0YH", "100010", "   ", "NUT-SPRG-EXPN   ", "G", 
>"0000105", "
>           ", "   ", "      ", "   "]]
>
>It seems that result is flattened. I expect result like this:
>[[a,b,c], d,e,f,[g,h,i]]
>
>Could anyone tell me how can I achieve that? Thanks a lot!
>
>Shannon
>
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