From: Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@...>
Date: 2006-04-26T21:56:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How i can to parse string

On 4/26/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Jonh wrote:
>
> > Jonh wrote:
> >> I have this string:
> >>
> >> store[name]=Ilyas store,store[phone]= 4999-233-2923, store[fax]=
> >> 80233923293,store[description]=lkjklsdaj,save=save,cancel=cancel
> >>
> >> need with regexp, put it's in Hash object
> >
> > That is my version for problem solving.
> > I want to simplify it
> >
> > if params[:param]
> >          paramater = Hash.new
> >          for value in params[:param].split(/,/)
> >              if value =~ /(.*)=(.*)/
> >                 parameter[$1] = $2
> >              end
> >          end
> > end
> > puts parameter.inspect
>
> Does this help?
>
>  >> str = "store[name]=Ilyas store,store[phone]= 4999-233-2923, store
> [fax]= 80233923293,store[description]=lkjklsdaj,save=save,cancel=cancel"
> => "store[name]=Ilyas store,store[phone]= 4999-233-2923, store[fax]=
> 80233923293,store[description]=lkjklsdaj,save=save,cancel=cancel"
>  >> Hash[*str.scan(/([^\s,]+)\s*=\s*([^,]+)/).flatten]
> => {"cancel"=>"cancel", "store[fax]"=>"80233923293", "store
> [name]"=>"Ilyas store", "save"=>"save", "store
> [description]"=>"lkjklsdaj", "store[phone]"=>"4999-233-2923"}

or the slight modification to James' answer:
irb> store = Hash[*str.scan(/\S\[([^\s,]+)\]\s*=\s*([^,]+)/).flatten]
=> {"name"=>"Ilyas store", "description"=>"lkjklsdaj", "phone"=>"4999-233-2923"}

Cameron