From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T06:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: New at regexp and Ruby need help on parsing a string.

On Nov 23, 10:29 am, Peter Vanderhaden <bostonanti...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Raul,
> Interesting solution.  One question, how did you print the output?  I'm
> a newbie and the output I got when I tried your solution came out like:
>
> andstuffnice thingsgirlsboysnotbad girlsgreasy boys
>
> I used puts smoking_table.  I'm assuming that's not the correct way to
> do it.
> Thanks,
> PV
>
>
>
>
>
> Raul Parolari wrote:
> > Gabra Kadabra wrote:
> >> I'm building a little test console for a ruby project. When using a
> >> function I might get something like this:
>
> >> input_string ="and stuff and nice things not bad girls not greasy boys
> >> and girlsandboys"
>
> >> As you already have guessed, I want the following in some kind of
> >> format:
>
> >> smoking_table = {"and" => ["stuff", "nice things", "girlsandboys"],
> >> "not" => ["bad girls","greasy boys"]}
>
> >> Thus, a regexp that splits a string on code words like "and" and "not"
> >> is what I need.
> >> Please help me
>
> > # One possible implementation is:
>
> > smoking_table = { :and => [], :not => [] }
>
> > str.scan(/ (and|not) (.*?) (?= \band|\bnot|$) /x) do |k, v|
> >   smoking_table[k.to_sym].push(v.strip)
> > end
>
> > => {:and => ["stuff", "nice things", "girlsandboys"],
> >     :not => ["bad girls", "greasy boys"]}
>
> > I hope that this works for you,
>
> > Raul
>
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p smoking_table

(Same as stud's example).

HTH,
Richard