Regexp help please

Hi All,

I am trying to extract quoted text fromlines in a file. Assume I have
read in a line as follows

type "this piece of text" into field called "search field"

I then want to extract the two pieces of quoted text from this line.
I'm halfway there with this
line =~ /(".*?")/
this will match the first piece of quoted text, which I can access
with $1. I'm having trouble getting the match to carry on & match the
next piece of quoted text.

Any help greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

Many Thanks

Paul

453/22 > irb
irb(main):001:0> a=%<"first" and "second">
=> "\"first\" and \"second\""
irb(main):002:0> a.scan /".*?"/
=> ["\"first\"", "\"second\""]
irb(main):003:0>

HTH
Robert

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Or:

聽聽line=%<"first" and "second">
聽聽line =~ /(".*?")[^"]*(".*?")/

聽聽puts $1 # => "first"
聽聽puts $2 # => "second"

The [^"]* means "zero or more characters that aren't a doublequote
character".

Dave

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Thanks Robert, that was exactly what I was looking for. I knew there
had to be a simple way to do it in Ruby. I love Ruby!!

Paul