What's the “ruby way” to parse a string for a single key/value?

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
         


        

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]