From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2007-10-10T21:54:10+09:00
Subject: Re: data count problem in array

On 10/10/07, Vidya Vidya <vidhu1232001@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> hi all,
>
>    now i am facing problem with count, actually i need to count the data
> after spliting like this is my one data
>
> @aa=LIN*EDIA000005*000000570*570*0697*RC*SHEPLER'S EXCLU*100*SHEPLER'S
> EXCLUSIVE*6042142403*SHEPLERS COGNAC HORNBACK CAIMAN
> TAIL*20070719*20070719**02*724178914197******070
> A**********************50384~
>
>   - i need to split based on *,if you split base on *, we can get number
> count 44, but in coding i don't know how to count in array, i user
> @a.size function, but its    shows the count no 1 only, please help me
> to count this record and get the array index.
>
> i have given my coding, what i tried in below,
>
>              @a=@aa.split("~")
>               @a.each do |v|
>                 @h=v.split("*")
>                  @test=@h.size
>                end
>                return @test
>
>   This is the sample records, this record will follows one by one at the
> end of ~.

The problem here is that * is a special character for regular
expressions, so you will have to escape it. This works:

@a=@aa.split("~")
@a.each do |v|
   @h=v.split("\*")
end

Hope this helps,

Jesus.