From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T07:00:54+09:00
Subject: Re: read variables from string

daniel wrote:
> Thanks for your input. But I was looking for something like an inverse
> of sprintf (where you can extract variables from a string according to
> a given format, instead of gluing a string together from variables).
> Does anybody know if something like this exists in ruby?
>   
The opposite of printf is scanf: 
http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/code/scanf/scanf-rdoc/files/EXAMPLES.html

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