From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-02-09T10:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: principle of most suprise


"tony summerfelt" <snowzone5@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:NbeTb.1048$_62.314@read1.cgocable.net...
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 at 21:24 GMT, Maik Schmidt <contact@maik-schmidt.de>
wrote:
>
> > split will always return an Array (see "Ruby in a nutshell, p. 54).
>
> i read that a number of times before i posted...that's why i was stumped
>
> > You do not have to force this explicitly by using the Array
constructor.
>
> i don't know what i was thinking...you'd never know it, but i'm a better
> programmer than that :/
>
> > And if you want to do so, you have to use '()' not '[]' :-))
>
> i want to thank everyone for the polite replies :) it must have been
hard
> restraining yourselves :)

Just to keep improving: change

logline=String.new("+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x")

to

logline="+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x"

which saves you a superfluous object creation. :-)

To make results look a bit nicer you could also do

result = logline.split(/\s*\[\d+\]\s*/).first

to make the regexp eat up all white space that surrounds your split mark.

Regards

    robert