From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-09-27T12:47:19+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp needed to split letters from numbers

On Saturday, 27 September 2003 at 12:44:11 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 September 2003 at 12:17:19 +0900, Thomas A. Reilly wrote:
> > I would appreciate it if someone could give me the regexp that it would 
> > split the following:
> > for example -
> > "clonidine300 mg"  into "clonidine 300 mg"
> > 
> > I have a bunch of drug data where the dose had been typed together.
>  
> There's probably more than one way to do this. Here's one way:
> 

And yet another way:


  rb(main):018:0> m = /(\w+?)(\d+)\s+(\w+)/.match(s)
  => #<MatchData:0x81c2200>
  irb(main):019:0> m[1]
  => "clonidine"
  irb(main):020:0> m[2]
  => "300"
  irb(main):021:0> m[3]
  => "mg"

-- 
Jim Freeze
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