From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T07:19:37+09:00
Subject: Re: New guy... Intoduction and first question on some direct

On 12/8/05, Oscar Gonzalez <rakxzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> akonsu wrote:

How accurate is this example?  Just wondering if the mockup has
copy/paste errrors.  more below...

> DataGroup = {
>      [1] = {
>            [1] = {
>                  ["dataidentifier"] = {
>                         [1] = {
>                               ["type"] = 1,
>                               ["x"] = 45.5,
>                               ["count"] = 1,
>                               ["image"] = 4,
>                               ["y"] = 18.8,
>                           },
>                         [1] = {

Does the [1] really repeat here, or should this be [2] (or some other number)?

>                               ["type"] = 1,
>                               ["x"] = 21.5,
>                               ["count"] = 5,
>                               ["image"] = 4,
>                               ["y"] = 31.8,
>                           },

Should there be a '}' here to close off the 'dataidentifier'?

>              },
>            [2] = {
>                  ["dataidentifier2"] = {
>                         [1] = {
>                               ["type"] = 1,
>                               ["x"] = 74.5,
>                               ["count"] = 1,
>                               ["image"] = 3,
>                               ["y"] = 11.8,
>                           },
>                         [1] = {
>                               ["type"] = 1,
>                               ["x"] = 27.5,
>                               ["count"] = 5,
>                               ["image"] = 3,
>                               ["y"] = 36.8,
>                           },
>              },

I'm assuming any missing  '}' here would be at the end of the file.

If my guesses are right, it wouldn't be too tough to convert this
quickly with something along the lines of:

require 'pp'

text = File.read('some.log')
text.gsub!(/Datagroup = /, '')
text.gsub!(/\["?(.*?)"?\] =/, '"\1" =>')

datagroup = eval(text)

pp datagroup


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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)