From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-02T07:42:21+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie qustion

On Aug 1, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Robert Smith wrote:

> I'm trying to parse a file that looks like this:
>
> text....
> text....
> numbers....
>
> IDS_SOMETHIGN_SOMETHING  "giving you cookies in a sec"
> IDX_SOMETHING_SOMETHIGN  "hi again"
> IDY_SMOTHIENG_SOMETHIGN_SOMTHIGN  "HELO world"
> ID_ONE_THING     "hello how are you"
> ID_ONETHINGTOO   "give me a number"
> ID_ONEMORE_THING_ANDMORE   "this are strings"
>
> I'm trying to create a hash table but i'm not sure what's wrong  
> with my
> delimeters:
>
> class Parser
>
>   table = { }
>   IO.foreach('resurcefiletest') { |line|
>    if line =~ /^ID* (.*?) = \s* " (.*?) "/x
>     #if line =~ /^ \s* " (.*?) " \s* = \s* " (.*?) "/x
>       table[ $1 ] = $2
>     end
>   }
>
>   #puts table["StaplingTitle"]
>   p table
> end

//x just gets confusing.  Make your regexp simple:

table = {}

File.foreach filename do |line|
   next unless line =~ /^ID(\S+) "(.*?)"/
   table[$1] = $2
end

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