From: Dennis Ranke <mail@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T06:48:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Dice Roller (#61)

Hi,

Here is my solution #1 for this nice quiz. Hacky and short, without (!) 
using eval... ;)

module Dice
   def self.roll(expr)
     expr = expr.gsub(/\s/, '')
     while
       expr.sub!(/\(([^()]+)\)/) { roll($1) } ||
       expr.sub!(/(\A|[^\d])\-\-(\d+)/, '\\1\\2') ||
       expr.sub!(/d%/, 'd100') ||
       expr.sub!(/(\d+)d(\d+)/) { (1..$1.to_i).inject(0) {|a, b| a + 
rand($2.to_i) + 1} } ||
       expr.sub!(/d(\d+)/, '1d\\1') ||
       expr.sub!(/(\d+)\/(\-?\d+)/) { $1.to_i / $2.to_i } ||
       expr.sub!(/(\d+)\*(\-?\d+)/) { $1.to_i * $2.to_i } ||
       expr.sub!(/(\-?\d+)\-(\-?\d+)/) { $1.to_i - $2.to_i } ||
       expr.sub!(/(\-?\d+)\+(\-?\d+)/) { $1.to_i + $2.to_i }
     end
     return $1.to_i if /\A(\-?\d+)\Z/ =~ expr
     raise "Error evaluating dice expression, stuck at '#{expr}'"
   end
end

(ARGV[1] || 1).to_i.times { print "#{Dice.roll(ARGV[0])}  " }
puts