From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-03T01:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub problem

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, huseyin polat wrote:

> I have spend over 4 hours for this.. here is the question masters, very
> simple.
> str=String.new
> str="[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]"
>
> now I want to print this string as
> [1,2],[2,1],[3,1],[4,1]
> in other word I want to add comma between those ][ and make them look
> like ],[
> I tried gsub with hundred different possibilities but no luck,

harp:~ > ruby -e'  puts("[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]".gsub(%r/\]\[/, "],["))  '
[1,2],[2,1],[3,1],[4,1]


> second problem
> if my the same str has
> [1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1],
> and I want to get rid of last comma from the list, I tried chop chomp
> and all that but it gets ri of alot more than comma at the end. how can
> I get rid of last comma from the list? from [1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1], to
> [1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]

harp:~ > ruby -e'  puts("[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1],,,".gsub(%r/,+$/,"").gsub(%r/\]\[/, "],["))  '
[1,2],[2,1],[3,1],[4,1]

regards.

-a

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