From: Corey Haines <coreyhaines@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T07:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression

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Sweet! I like pulling the numbers out, but I get this in irb

irb(main):001:0> "cor4ey ha2ines".scan(/[a-z]/i).join.each_char.partition {
|x| "aeiouAEIOU"[x] }
NoMethodError: undefined method `each_char' for "coreyhaines":String

Why not use split(//) instead of each_char?


On Feb 2, 2008 5:04 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2008 7:27 PM, Corey Haines <coreyhaines@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Elegant? I don't know, but I kind of like it. :)
> >
> > "corey".split(//).partition { |x| "aeiouAEIOU"[x] }
> >
> > returns
> >
> > => [["o", "e"], ["c", "r", "y"]]
> >
> > irb(main):006:0> "corey haines".split(//).partition { |x|
> "aeiouAEIOU"[x] }
> > => [["o", "e", "a", "i", "e"], ["c", "r", "y", " ", "h", "n", "s"]]
> >
> > you might want to skip spaces
> >
> >
> > -Corey
> Excellent Corey, allow me to make it fit *any* string, I still have
> not seen any statement that we are treating letters only ;)
>
> "cor4ey ha2ines".scan(/[a-z]/i).join.each_char.partition { |x|
> "aeiouAEIOU"[x] }
>
> Robert
> ---
> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
> Ludwig Wittgenstein
>
>


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