From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2006-06-01T05:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Better coding using ruby

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 2:33 pm, Paul D. Kraus wrote:

> def splitpipe( string )
>   count = 0
>   record = string.split('|')
>   record.each do |element|
>     element = element.strip
>     element = formatnum(element) if element =~ /\d?\.\d+/
>     element = convertdate(element) if element =~ /^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d$/
>     record[ count ] = element
>     count += 1
>   end
> end

def splitpipe (string)
  string.split('|').collect do |element|
    element = element.strip
    element = formatnum(element) if element =~ /\d?\.\d+/
    element = convertdate(element) if element =~ /^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d$/
  end
end