From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T07:51:55+09:00
Subject: Re: silly regex question

On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> IMO, my version's more readable.  I'm going for readability here.

def process_string str
   result = Hash.new
   str.scan(/^\s*(important ([a-zA-Z0-9]+): .+?)\s*$/) do |line, key|
     result[key] = line
   end
   result
end

# ... or ...

def process_string str
   str.inject(Hash.new) do |result, line|
     result[$1] = line if line =~ /^\s*important ([^:]+):/
     result
   end
end

James Edward Gray II