Thanks! So exciting!
-----Original Message-----
From: "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: 7/5/2007 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie regexp question
On 7/5/07, Skt <scottjourand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Newbs here, decided to take today to learn regular expression.
>
> What i want to do is take a sentence and just pull two things from it. Example:
>
> "My address is 68 Ohio"
>
> I want to pull address and 68 from the sentence but that pesky is is getting in my way(or im too newb)
>
> "My address is 68 ohio" =~ /\w{7}\d{2}/ is what i tried but continuous nils. Any help?
>> m = "My address is 68 Ohio".match(/(\w{7}).*(\d{2})/)
=> #<MatchData:0x33c17c>
>> m[1]
=> "address"
>> m[2]
=> "68"
But what that actually says is 'Match a word 7 characters long,
followed by zero or more matches of any character (except newline),
then match two digits.
If you really wanted to pull address and 68, you'd want:
>> m = "My address is 68 Ohio".match(/(address).*(68)/)
=> #<MatchData:0x314438>
>> m[1]
=> "address"
>> m[2]
=> "68"
Hope that helps.