From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T01:10:36+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY gsub...

On 1/12/07, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I wrote the following ruby statements..  I get the result I need , I
> tried to DRY it for 2 hours without being successfull ,
>
>       d = d.gsub(/\r\n/,' ')   # get rid of carriage return
>       d = d.gsub(/;/,' ')  # replace column by space
>       d = d.gsub(/,/,' ') # replace comma by space
>       a  = d.split(' ')   # split into component , space as divider

what about:

a = d.gsub(/\r\n|;|,/,' ').split(' ')

or

a = d.split(/\r\n|;|,| /)

(not tested, I'm too lazy/busy to write the tests now)