From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T23:54:39+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting string to hash

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> [mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Brian Nice
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> Subject: splitting string to hash
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> I have a strings like the following:
>   s1- "[1] Hello [2] bye"
>   s2- "[1] Hello [2] bye [2:1] continue [2] more"

Should that be "[2:2] more" ?

> I want to convert them to hashes like
>   h1- {1 => "Hello", 2 => "bye"}

arr = s1.split(/\s*?\[(.*?)\]\s*/)
arr.delete("")

h1 = Hash[*arr]

I'm not actually sure why I get an empty string from the Array#split
call.  If someone can figure that out, you can get rid of the
Array#delete call.

Regards,

Dan


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