Match(f.read)[0].to_a[0] meaning?

my_ip = (require ‘open-uri’ ; open(“http://myip.dk”) { |f|
/([0-9]{1,3}.){3}[0-9]{1,3}/.match(f.read)[0].to_a[0] })

what is the different between match(f.read)[0].to_a[0] and match(f.read)
?

is someone can explain it?

Zhenning G. wrote:

what is the different between match(f.read)[0].to_a[0] and match(f.read)

match(f.read) returns a MatchData object.
match(f.read)[0] returns a String object, which is the substring
that
the regular expression matched.(*)
match(f.read)[0].to_a returns an Array object where each item of the
array
is a line of the string.
match(f.read)[0].to_a[0] returns the first item of that array, i.e. the
first
line of the string.

Since however, in this case, the matched string can’t contain more than
one
line the whole to_a[0] business is superfluous.

(*) match_data_object[i], with 0 < i <= n, where n is the number of
capturing
groups in the regular expression, returns the substring matched by the
ith
capturing group of the regular expression.

HTH,
Sebastian