From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-04T09:25:15+09:00
Subject: Re: regex question

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> I have a file that contains the following contents:
>
> sw_corner = 1000,-1000
> ne_corner = -1000,1000
>
> I want to read that file and figure out what the sw_corner and
> ne_corner values are.  Here's my following attempt, but it looks ugly.
> How can I improve it?
>
> sw_corner = map_data.scan(/sw_corner = ([-\d]+),\s*([-\d]+)/)[0]
> ne_corner = map_data.scan(/ne_corner = ([-\d]+),\s*([-\d]+)/)[0]
>
> Thanks,
> Joe

(untested)

   h = {}
   map_data.each do |line|
     key, value = line.split %r/=/
     h[k.strip] = value.split(%r/,/).map{|n| Integer n}
   end
   p h['sw_corner']
   p h['nw_corner']

hth.

-a
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