From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T10:27:28+09:00
Subject: Re: a smart way...

How about this?
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C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> line = '<file name="daniel">'
"<file name=\"daniel\">"
irb(main):002:0> line =~ /<file +name *= *"(.+)" *>/
0
irb(main):003:0> puts $1
daniel
nil
irb(main):004:0> exit

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.7.3 (2002-11-17) [i386-mswin32]
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I took the liberty of removing the unwanted parenthesis from your regex.
I am assuming that you are new to Ruby and not to regex handling.
If not, let me know and will try and elaborate more ...

HTH,
-- shanko

"daniel" <daniel.daniel@aon.at> wrote in message
news:3e20bc01$0$37624$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
> hello,
>
> I'm new and I'm searching for an smart way to extract
> the string 'daniel' from this line
> --
> <file name="daniel">
> --
>
> I can find this line via: line =~ /<file( +)name( *)=( *"(.+)")( *)>/
> But how to extrace this sting?
>
> This question is only an example for much similar things
> (I'm not searching for XML-Stuff).
>
> daniel
>
>