Question

I am trying to parse a multi line string and get the rest of the line following a pattern.

text:

hello john
your username is: jj
thanks for signing up

I want to extract jj, aka everything after “your username is: “

One way:

text = "hello john\nyour username is: jj\nthanks for signing up\n"
match = text[/your username is: (.*)/]
value = $1

But this reminds me of perl… and doesn’t “read” as naturally as I am told ruby should.

Is there a cleaner way? AKA A “ruby” way?

Thanks

Answer 1

Your code is pretty much the Ruby way. If you don’t want to use the global $1, you can use the 2 arg version String#[]:

match = text[/your username is: (.*)/, 1]