From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T02:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: yaml array of arrays

Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Parting shot. Confucius say, "avoid data formats in which whitespace is
>> syntactically significant."
> 
> DarnitnowIunderst
> andwhyIhavesom
> uchtroublewithEn
> glishpunctation

Point taken. :)

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

data=<<EOF
I've always thought languages and data formats that rely on whitespace
represent going one meter too far into the realm of making the data look
user-friendly.

EOF

puts data

data.gsub!(/\s+/,"").gsub!(/(.{1,5})/,"\\1 ")

puts data

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Output:

I've always thought languages and data formats that rely on whitespace
represent going one meter too far into the realm of making the data look
user-friendly.

I'vea lways thoug htlan guage sandd atafo rmats thatr elyon white space
repre sentg oingo nemet ertoo farin tothe realm ofmak ingth edata looku
ser-f riend ly.

(just to undermine my own point.)

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com