From: Dae San Hwang <daesan@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T10:12:54+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub problem

(first problem)

Other people's solution should work, but you don't really need to use  
regex for this one.

try this:

str = "[1,2][2,1][3,1][4,1]"
str.gsub!('][', '],[')

(second problem)

str = "[1, 2][2, 1][3, 1][4, 1],"
str.gsub!(/,$/, '')

cheers,
daesan


On Mar 3, 2006, at 1:13 AM, 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,
>
> 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]
>
>
> any help will be appreciated.
> thank you
>
>
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