Question

Ok so i have this string

Something 06/15/2009 some other data  33 77

And I want to seperate then like this

Something
06/15/2009
some other data  
33 
77

Any idea a clean way to do this

Answer 1

You could try:

/(.+?)\s+(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)\s+(.+?)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)/

Rubular example

Gives what you want for the example given at least.

Update:

It might be better to make the .+ parts greedy:

/(.+)\s+(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)\s+(.+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)/

This way, ‘something’ or ‘some other data’ can include dates and numbers.