From: "Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR" <Thomas.Mark@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T05:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: parsing with delimeters ---new programmer

Robert wrote:
> and then somewhere in the file i have a table like this:
> 
>  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 = {}
> 
>    File.foreach filename do |line|
>    next unless line =~ /^ID(\S+) "(.*?)"/
>    table[$1] = $2
>    end
> 
>  end

Your regular expression does not accommodate more than one space between
the key and the value, which all your lines have. Also, if there are
leading spaces, you need to accommodate them.

- Mark.