From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T11:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: simple question

or a gem called 'OptionParser'. It's like optparse, only, I find, a  
lot simpler.

On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Michael Hollins wrote:

> anitawa wrote:
>> hello
>> I have a string like this
>> string = "hello -a apple -b butterfly -c cat -d dophin"
>> i would like to parse the string based on some reg exp so that i can
>> store it in a variable like so.
>> valuea = "apple"
>> valueb = "butterfly"
>> valuec = "cat"
>> valued = "dophin"
>> Could someone help me out.
>
> Are you parsing a command line? If so, you might want to consider  
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/index.html
>
> cheers,
> mick
>
>

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