From: Henrik Schmidt <no.spam@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T03:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY gsub...

Josselin 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 would probably go with

a = d.chomp.split(/[\s,;]/)

Best regards,
   Henrik Schmidt