From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T01:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's equivalent of PHP explode

voipfc@googlemail.com wrote:

> 
> What is ruby's equivalent of PHPs explode?
> 
> A routine which can breakdown a string and return the results in an
> array or a routine that  can parse an .ini file and return the key
> value pairs in an array[key]=value.

Actually, that is two questions. As to the first (explode a string on word
boundaries), you've been given an answer:

array = string.split("\s") # many variations

As to the second, read an .ini file and break it down by line and by
name/value pairs (not tested):

data = File.read("filename.ini")

my_hash = {}

data.each do |line|
  key,value = line.split("=")
  my_hash[key] = value
end

The second won't work properly if there are any equals signs in the value
field. The solution for this is only a bit more complex.

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