From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-02T10:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: no clue

Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:

>     attributes = message.split(",")
>     attributes.each do |attribute|
>       key, value = attribute.scan(/(\w+): (.+)/)[0]
>       result_hash[key.to_sym] = value.strip 
>     end

How about this?

   message.scan /(\w+)\s*:\s*([^, ]*)/ do |k, v|
     result_hash[k.to_sym] = v end

> Also, this will get ran potentially thousands of times per second,
> so executation speed is of some concern.

I don't know if the above is the best you can do, but I do believe it
is a bit faster than your original version.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>