From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T02:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY gsub...

On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Robert Dober 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
>>
>> Joss
>
>
> I know you got lots of answers but what about
>
> a = d.gsub(/;|,/," ").split

No need for a Regexp there:

a = d.tr(";,", " ").split

James Edward Gray II