From: Matthew D Moss <matthew.moss@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T03:21:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] LCD Numbers (#14)

Here is my solution...  Not sure that it is really Ruby-ish, as this is
my very first Ruby program and I'm not all that familiar with the
libraries and some of the language features. So I'm certain some of it
could be refactored, cleaned and tightened up.  (Apologies for lack of
indentation...  can't figure out how to convince google groups to
comply.)

#!/usr/bin/ruby

size = 2	# default

# get arguments and sanity/error checking on parameters
require 'getoptlong'

opts = GetoptLong.new( [ "--size", "-s", GetoptLong::OPTIONAL_ARGUMENT
] )
opts.each do |opt, arg|
if '--size' == opt
if arg.to_i.to_s != arg
puts 'Error: size param is not a number'
exit
end
size = arg.to_i
end
end

if 1 != ARGV.length
puts 'Usage: lcd.rb [-s <size>] <number>'
exit
end

value = ARGV[0].dup
if value.to_i.to_s != value
puts 'Error: argument is not a number'
exit
end


# bit patterns of which segments are off/on for each digit
bits = {
'0' => 0b01110111,
'1' => 0b00100100,
'2' => 0b01011101,
'3' => 0b01101101,
'4' => 0b00101110,
'5' => 0b01101011,
'6' => 0b01111011,
'7' => 0b00100101,
'8' => 0b01111111,
'9' => 0b01101111
}

# our lovely constant strings for off/on bars
HBar = [ ' ', '-' ].collect { |c| ' ' + c * size + ' ' }
LBar = [ ' ', '|' ]
RBar = [ ' ', '|' ].collect { |c| ' ' * size + c }


# turn each digit into its 7seg bit pattern
digits = value.split(//).collect { |o| bits[o] }

# for each segment, collect an array of 0 and 1 for all digits
seg = []
(0...7).each do |s|
seg[s] = digits.collect { |b| ((b >> s) & 0x01) }
end

# turn each horizontal segment into an array of horizontal bars
[0, 3, 6].each do |i|
seg[i].collect! { |x| HBar[x] }
end

# turn each vertical segment into an array of vertical bars
[ [1, 2], [4, 5] ].each do |t|
seg[ t[0] ].collect! { |x| LBar[x] }		# left verticals
seg[ t[1] ].collect! { |x| RBar[x] }		# right verticals (incl
center space)

# merge left and right bars into left, combining each string
pair
seg[ t[0] ] = seg[ t[0] ].zip(seg[ t[1] ]).collect { |s| s[0] +
s[1] }
end

# output!
puts seg[0].join(' ')
size.times do
puts seg[1].join(' ')
end
puts seg[3].join(' ')
size.times do
        puts seg[4].join(' ')
end
puts seg[6].join(' ')