From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T01:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Regexp question

--- Laurent Sansonetti <laurent@datarescue.be> wrote:
> Hello Dominik,
> 
> Dominik Werder wrote:
> > This is probably not the easiest way to solve this:
> > file.gets=~/(.+?)( \(.+)?$/
> > puts $1
> > 
> > How can I make it easier?
> > 
> 
> laurent@bigmac ~> irb --simple-prompt
>  >> a = [ "Illinois (3762)", "Indiana", "Iowa (64)", "Kansas",
> "Kentucky 
> (2675)" ]
> => ["Illinois (3762)", "Indiana", "Iowa (64)", "Kansas", "Kentucky
> (2675)"]
>  >> r = /(\w+)/
> => /(\w+)/
>  >> a.each { |s| p r.match(s)[0] }
> "Illinois"
> "Indiana"
> "Iowa"
> "Kansas"
> "Kentucky"
> 
> Hope this helps,


Add "South Dakota (00)", "New Jersey (29332)" to your tests...  =)

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