From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T02:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY gsub...

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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
>
> Joss


I know you got lots of answers but what about

a = d.gsub(/;|,/," ").split

If I am not mistaken it will work on Unix too.



HTH
Robert




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