From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T01:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY gsub...

On 1/12/07, Bira <u.alberton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > tfyl
>
> How about a = d.gsub(/\r\n|;|,/,' ').split(' ') ?

If you don't care about \r then maybe this

"ab;c,xx\r\nyy zz".scan(/[^ ;,\n]+/)
#=> ["ab", "c", "xx\r", "yy", "zz"]

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Simon Strandgaard
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