From: ishamid <ishamid@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T07:10:06+09:00
Subject: rexexp question

[total novice again ;-)]

Hi,

Ok, I've figured some of this pattern-matching out (yes, I'm really a
total novice at programming). Consider the following:

====================================
@data.gsub!(/<(text:span
text:style-name="T10")>(.*?)<\/text:span>/mois) do
    '{' + '\bf ' + $2 + '}'
end
@data.gsub!(/<(text:span
text:style-name="Style2")>(.*?)<\/text:span>/mois) do
    '{' + '\it ' + $2 + '}'
end
@data.gsub!(/<text:span.*?text:style-name=([\'\"])(.*?)\1>(.*?)<\/text:span>/)
do
    tag, text = $2, $3
    if inline[tag] then
        (inline[tag][0]||'') + clean_display(text) +
(inline[tag][1]||'')
    else
        clean_display(text)
    end
end
====================================

How can I condense this? I want something that says, eg.

If style-name equals "T10" or "Style2" or "Style3" then do \bf or \it
or \sl respectively. Otherwise, do clean_display (defined elsewhere).
The first line should look like this

==================
@data.gsub!(/<(text:span
text:style-name=("T10"|"Style2"|"Style3"))>(.*?)<\/text:span>/mois) do
==================

but how do I modify the

==================
    '{' + '\bf ' + $2 + '}'
==================

line?

Best
Idris