From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T15:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie qustion

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
>
> can somebody give me a hand?

---- code: ----
table = {}

DATA.each { |line|
  if line =~ /^ID ( \S+ ) \s+ " (.*) "/x
    table[ $1 ] = $2
  end
}
puts table.to_a.map{|a| a.join " => " }

__END__
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"

---- output: ----
_ONE_THING => hello how are you
_ONETHINGTOO => give me a number
Y_SMOTHIENG_SOMETHIGN_SOMTHIGN => HELO world
S_SOMETHIGN_SOMETHING => giving you cookies in a sec
_ONEMORE_THING_ANDMORE => this are strings
X_SOMETHING_SOMETHIGN => hi again