From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2004-01-31T06:04:53+09:00
Subject: principle of most suprise

gah, ruby is doing it to me again:

 logline=String.new("+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x")
 tda=Array[(logline.split(/\[\d+\]/))]
 tda.first

is it too much to assume that the string is split using [xxxx] as a demliter
and that tda.first should return "+ 30 Jan 12:20:09"?

i'm getting:  + 30 Jan 12:20:09  addr: x.x.x.x

i seem to be getting hung up on the simplest things. i'm using 
'ruby in a nutshell' and 'programming ruby' as my references.


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