comp.lang.ruby

Nikolai Weibull

4/13/2005 6:03:00 PM

Tony Targonski, April 14:

> > I' mtrying to match a pattern like this one : 297,12^[2 where 297,12
> > is the grand total.

Are you sure all numbers will be formatted in the \d+,\d+ format? What
about . in the first set? What about numbers lacking the decimal part?

> your_text.scan(/([0-9]+,[0-9]+)\^\[2/)

> Will return [["297,12"]], so you might want to stick a .flatten[0] in
> there if you know you'll have only a single match.

Use (?:â?¦) instead (and \d as it's a lot faster and clearer):

your_text.scan(/(?:\d+,\d+)\^\[2/)

Enjoy,
nikolai

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