From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T09:57:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?

On Thursday, September 16, 2004, 10:39:02 AM, Joel wrote:
>> perl -e 'while (<>) { /"(\w*)"/; print "$1\n" }' file-snippet.txt
>> 
>> In Ruby?  I didn't have the time to figure it out.  Which is the 
>> agonizing point.  Later, I did the following in Ruby to satisfactory
>> effect:
>> 
>> ruby -e 'ARGF.each { |line| line.scan( /"(\w*)"/ ) { |frag| puts frag }
>> }' file-snippet.txt
>> 
>> Perhaps someone can refine this while we're at it.  It's hard not to
>> notice that the Perl was more concise.  Perhaps my ignorance can be made
>> right...?  Can this be shortened in Ruby?  Surely...

> Golf.shoes = "on"

> $ ruby -n -e 'puts $1 if /"(\w+)"/' file-snippet.txt

$ ruby -ne 'puts $1 if /"(\w+)"/' file-snippet.txt

Easiest game of golf I ever played :)

Gavin