From: Daniel N <has.sox@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T09:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie qustion

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On 8/2/06, Robert Smith <ricardo.orozco@hp.com> 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
> 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
>
>
> --
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>
>
My Regex's aren't that good.   To me it looks like your trying to find
something in the format
"stuff" = "stuff"

is that correct?

Assuming that it is for now.  From Erics solution

table = {}

File.foreach filename do |line|
  next unless line =~ /^ID(\S+) "(.*?)"/
  key, value = line.split("=")
  table[key] = value
end

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