string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
can someone help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.
i am a beginner, i wrote
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/
i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.
Please help.
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Divya Badrinath wrote:
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
i mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.
can someone help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.
i am a beginner, i wrote
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.
Please help.
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Divya Badrinath schrieb:
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
can someone help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.
i am a beginner, i wrote
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.
Please help.
talking about efficient, I was just curious...
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
#
# Created by Florian Aßmann on 2007-07-10.
# Copyright (c) 2007. All rights reserved.
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
require 'profiler'
puts <<-EOS
pid = string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
cmd = string[/\s(\S+)$/, 1]
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
10000.times do
pid = string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
cmd = string[/\s(\S+)$/, 1]
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
puts <<-EOS
cols = string.split
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
10000.times do
cols = string.split
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
puts <<-EOS
number = string.split[1]
program = string.split.last
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
10000.times do
number = string.split[1]
program = string.split.last
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
*grin*
Florian
sorry for being OT since I'm not going to talk about ruby or regexp
If the string you're parsing is an output from the ps command you can
simplify your life using the -o option that prints only the fields you
need.
I.E. in gnu Linux
ps -ao pid,command
just outputs pid and command columns.
Be careful since the command column can contain spaces.
Paolo
On 10/07/07, Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@dash.net> wrote:
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
can someone help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.
i am a beginner, i wrote
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.
Please help.
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cols = string.split
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II
On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Divya Badrinath wrote:
Divya Badrinath wrote:
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
i mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.
Hi Divya, use
string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
see String.[]
Regards
Florian
I love regex, so it hurts me to say it, there are other ways of solving this 
for instance:
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
number = string.split[1]
program=string.split.last
now regexes!
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
number=string[/[0-9]+/]
program=string[/[a-z\/]+$/]
You know you can get values out of an array with the [] operator.
Well you can get strings out of strings that same way, and it works
with regexes!
string[/[0-9]+/] will return the first match of 1 or more numbers
Here's the magic use [ ] inside of a regular expression to create your
own groups. Individual characters in there are included in the group,
and ranges may be included using the -. so a-b is
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
The + afterwards means 1 or more times.
What if you want _exactly 5 consecutive numbers? use the {}
string[/[0-9]{5}/]
ranges also work here
string[/[0-9]{3-5}/] would match 3, 4 or 5 digit numbers
and
string[/[a-z\/]+$/] will match a text string containing the forward
slash at the end. The $ is a special char to represent the end of a
line, and since / is a special char itself, it needed to be escaped
with a \.
BUT it could even be easier.
the [] groups, can be negative!
/[^a]*/ would match any string that did not have an a in it
/[^ ]*/ would match any string that did not have a space in it...soo
string[/[^ ]+$/] would be a good way to get the last bit.
Ooooh fun.
so are you going to announce the winner
Paolo Negri wrote:
sorry for being OT since I'm not going to talk about ruby or regexp
If the string you're parsing is an output from the ps command you can
simplify your life using the -o option that prints only the fields you
need.I.E. in gnu Linux
ps -ao pid,command
just outputs pid and command columns.
Be careful since the command column can contain spaces.Paolo
i saw that too. But i can not use all the options in a ps command where
i am using.
i am limited to using ps -aef
i need to take care of fetching the stuff i need using from this result.
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Your regexp isn't too bad. With only a little tweaking I get this
which is not too inefficient IMHO:
irb(main):001:0> s = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
=> "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
irb(main):004:0> s =~
/^\S+\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+\S+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(\S+)/
=> 0
irb(main):005:0> [$1, $2]
=> ["14051", "/bin/bash"]
Or you can do
irb(main):007:0> s =~ /^\S+\s+(\d+)\s+(?:\S+\s+){5}(\S+)/
=> 0
irb(main):008:0> [$1, $2]
=> ["14051", "/bin/bash"]
irb(main):011:0> /^\S+\s+(\d+)\s+(?:\S+\s+){5}(\S+)/.match(s)[1..-1]
=> ["14051", "/bin/bash"]
Kind regards
robert
2007/7/10, Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@dash.net>:
Divya Badrinath wrote:
> string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
>
> i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the stringi mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.
>
> can someone help me to write an efficient regular expression for that.
>
> i am a beginner, i wrote
> string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/
>
> i know this is not the efficient way of doing it.
Florian Aßmann schrieb:
Hi Divya, use
string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
see String.[]
Regards
Florian
pid = string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
cmd = string[/\s(\S+)$/, 1] # is missing
Florian Aßmann wrote:
Hi Divya, use
string[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
see String.[]
Regards
Florian
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
with this,
string =~ /(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\s+.*\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+(.*)\s/
$1 gives me 14051
and
$3 gives me /bin/bash
what i am trying to do is to get $1 and $3 into a hash.
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> Divya Badrinath wrote:
>> string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
>>
>> i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
>
> i mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.cols = string.split
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
Very interesting James, I seem to be rather extreme and
sec, last = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
might be a tad to long for one line in your style, however Ruby syntax
just supports this marvelous syntax 
sec, last = string.split.
values_at(1, -1)
Robert
On 7/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Divya Badrinath wrote:
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II
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I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck
Ok, it was hard to beat Edward, but at least building the simplest
regular expression to do somthing like a String.split seems to faster:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
#
# Created by Florian Aßmann on 2007-07-10.
# Copyright (c) 2007. All rights reserved.
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
require 'profiler'
puts <<-EOS
pid_rx = /\s(\d+)/
cmd_rx = /\s(\S+)$/
pid, cmd = string[pid_rx, 1], string[cmd_rx, 1]
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
pid_rx = /\s(\d+)/
cmd_rx = /\s(\S+)$/
100000.times do
pid, cmd = string[pid_rx, 1], string[cmd_rx, 1]
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
puts <<-EOS
pid, cmd = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
100000.times do
pid, cmd = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
puts <<-EOS
rx = Regexp.new('\S+\s(\d+).*\s(\S+$)')
pid, cmd = rx.match(string).values_at( 1, -1 )
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
rx = Regexp.new('\S+\s(\d+).*\s(\S+$)')
100000.times do
pid, cmd = rx.match(string).values_at( 1, -1 )
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
puts <<-EOS
rx = Regexp.new('(\S+)')
pid, cmd = rx.match(string).values_at( 1, -1 )
EOS
Profiler__::start_profile
rx = Regexp.new('(\S+)')
100000.times do
pid, cmd = rx.match(string).values_at( 1, -1 )
end
Profiler__::stop_profile
Profiler__::print_profile STDOUT
Sincerely
Florian
It's just profiler code, you can run it yourself... But on my machine:
pid = string[/ (d+)/, 1]
cmd = string[/ (S+)$/, 1]
% cumulative self self total
time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
58.26 0.67 0.67 1 670.00 1150.00 Integer#times
41.74 1.15 0.48 20000 0.02 0.02 String#[]
0.00 1.15 0.00 1 0.00 1150.00 #toplevel
cols = string.split
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
% cumulative self self total
time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
66.67 0.70 0.70 1 700.00 1050.00 Integer#times
18.10 0.89 0.19 10000 0.02 0.02 String#split
15.24 1.05 0.16 10000 0.02 0.02 Array#values_at
0.00 1.05 0.00 1 0.00 1050.00 #toplevel
number = string.split[1]
program = string.split.last
% cumulative self self total
time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
61.70 1.16 1.16 1 1160.00 1880.00 Integer#times
23.94 1.61 0.45 20000 0.02 0.02 String#split
8.51 1.77 0.16 10000 0.02 0.02 Array#last
5.85 1.88 0.11 10000 0.01 0.01 Array#[]
0.00 1.88 0.00 1 0.00 1880.00 #toplevel
On 7/10/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
Ooooh fun.
so are you going to announce the winner
You can process the ps output using other commands.
ps -aef|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f2,8-
This will just print your second column the 8th and anything that
comes after. At this point your regexp only need to split the string
at the first space.
Paolo
On 11/07/07, Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@dash.net> wrote:
Paolo Negri wrote:
> sorry for being OT since I'm not going to talk about ruby or regexp
>
> If the string you're parsing is an output from the ps command you can
> simplify your life using the -o option that prints only the fields you
> need.
>
> I.E. in gnu Linux
>
> ps -ao pid,command
>
> just outputs pid and command columns.
> Be careful since the command column can contain spaces.
>
> Paoloi saw that too. But i can not use all the options in a ps command where
i am using.
i am limited to using ps -aefi need to take care of fetching the stuff i need using from this result.
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What is your terminal width, 30?
On 7/10/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Divya Badrinath wrote:
>
> > Divya Badrinath wrote:
> >> string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash"
> >>
> >> i need to fetch 14051 and /bin/bash from the string
> >
> > i mean i need the 2nd column and the last column.
>
> cols = string.split
> sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
Very interesting James, I seem to be rather extreme andsec, last = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
might be a tad to long for one line in your style, however Ruby syntax
just supports this marvelous syntaxsec, last = string.split.
values_at(1, -1)
except that the last regexp match sh**... lol
Robert Dober wrote:
sec, last = cols.values_at(1, -1)
Very interesting James, I seem to be rather extreme and
sec, last = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
might be a tad to long for one line in your style, however Ruby syntax
just supports this marvelous syntaxsec, last = string.split.
values_at(1, -1)Robert
cmd = string[/\s(\S+)$/, 1]
doesnt fetch me anything:)
program=string.split.last
what if
string = "root 14051 14033 3 08:39 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash -x
-s"
it fetches only -s for me.
sec, last = string.split.values_at(1, -1)
doesnt work for the same reason
i need everything after 00.00.00 till the end
i.e., /bin/bash -x -s
program=string[/[a-z\/]+$/]
the command column mauy start with character. i dont want to limit it in
my regexp. it has to be generic.
with all your comments, i tried
pid = run_process[/\s(\d+)/, 1]
cmd = run_process[/:\d+:\d+\s(\S.*)\s$/, 1]
is there any other way?
On 7/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
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You're in trouble if any of your fields have spaces, though the
specific case of ps -aef looks safe enough.
martin
On 7/11/07, Paolo Negri <hungrylist@gmail.com> wrote:
You can process the ps output using other commands.
ps -aef|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f2,8-
This will just print your second column the 8th and anything that
comes after. At this point your regexp only need to split the string
at the first space.