Question

How can I parse the following string:

Phone + 300 mins & unlimited texts – 24 month plan $25

to obtain the bracketed values, i.e.

Phone + [300] mins & [unlimited] texts – [24] month plan $[25]

Answer 1

Depends, if they all look like that, then:

/Phone \+ (\w+) mins & (\w+) texts - (\d+) month plan \$(\w+)/

That assumes that a plan may contain unlimited minutes.

You can use the regex like this:

str =  "Phone + 300 mins & unlimited texts - 24 month plan $25"
regex =  /Phone \+ (\w+) mins & (\w+) texts - (\d+) month plan \$(\w+)/
match = regex.match(str).to_a

now match is ["Phone + 300 mins & unlimited texts - 24 month plan $25", "300", "unlimited", "24", "25"]