From: James Moore <jamesthepiper@...>
Date: 2007-12-15T03:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: simple way to turn "foo and bar" to "+foo +bar"

Do you need to worry about phrases?

Something like:

require 'pp'
f = "foo and bar AND north dakota"
result = f.split(/\s+and\s+/i).inject('') {|memo, obj| memo +
"+(#{obj}) "}.strip
pp result

=> "+(foo) +(bar) +(north dakota)"

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