From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T07:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: silly regex question

On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> Can someone help me make this code not suck?

I guess it depends on what you mean by that...

> require 'test/unit'
>
> # EWWWWWWW
> def process_string str
>   result = Hash.new
>   str.to_a.each do |line|
>     line.scan(/important ([a-zA-Z0-9]+): /) do |key|
>       result[key.first] = line
>     end
>   end
>   result
> end

def process_string str
   Hash[*str.scan(/^\s*(important ([a-zA-Z0-9]+): .+) 
$/).flatten.reverse]
end

James Edward Gray II