From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T00:51:12+09:00
Subject: Re: no clue

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>I have a string like:
>
>"some_key: blah, some_other_key: more_blah,
> yet_other_key: yet_more_blah"
>
>I want to build up a hash like
>
>{ :some_key => "blah", :some_other_key => "more_blah",
> :yet_other_key => "yet_more_blah" }

h={}
DATA.read.split(/\s*[:,\n]\s*/).inject(false){|a,b|
  if a then h[a.to_sym]=b; a=false else a=b end }

p h
__END__
some_key: blah, some_other_key: more_blah, yet_other_key: yet_more_blah
key1:value1
key2:  value2
key3   : value 3  , key4 :value4 , key555555555:value55555


----
Output:

{:key3=>"value 3", :some_key=>"blah", :key4=>"value4",
:some_other_key=>"more_blah", :key555555555=>"value55555",
:yet_other_key=>"yet_more_blah", :key1=>"value1",
:key2=>"value2"}