From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T03:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Regexp question

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:18:01 +0900, Michael Campbell
<michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote:

>--- 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...  =)
>

a = [ "Illinois (3762)",
      "Indiana", "Iowa (64)",
      "Kansas",
      "Kentucky (2675)",
      "South Dakota (00)",
      "New Jersey (29332)"
     ]

a.each { |s| p s.split(/ \(/)[0] }