From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T19:52:06+09:00
Subject: Re: text processing

From: Stephen Smith [mailto:4fires@gmail.com] :
# Nice. You just made my month.
# Thank you Harry. Thank you Gary.
# Freekin' elegant.
# Steve
# 
# On 3/29/07, Harry <ruby.hardware@gmail.com> wrote:
# > On 3/30/07, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
# > > On Mar 30, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Harry wrote:
# > > > x =~ /(...)(.)(....)/ #grabs 3 characters, then 1, then 4
# > > > mydata << $1 + "," + $2 + "," + $3 + "\n"
# > >
# > > mydata << /(...)(.)(....)/.match(x).captures.join(',') << "\n"

ruby is fun, elegant, and powerful.
some more samples.

irb(main):030:0> x
=> "01234567890"
irb(main):031:0> x[/(..)...(....)/]
=> "012345678"
irb(main):032:0> $1
=> "01"
irb(main):033:0> $2
=> "5678"
irb(main):034:0> x[0..1]
=> "01"
irb(main):035:0> x[5..8]
=> "5678"
irb(main):036:0> field1=0..1
=> 0..1
irb(main):037:0> field2=5..8
=> 5..8
irb(main):038:0> x[field1]
=> "01"
irb(main):039:0> x[field2]
=> "5678"
irb(main):040:0>

kind regards -botp