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

Not sure if it's any more Ruby'ish, but another option:

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