From: ben baka <brainychip@...>
Date: 2008-02-04T21:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings .each method

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I think this might.

string = "This is a big old string"

#Instead of iterating you could match text "big"
find = string.match('big')

#to see if "big" is in the next block of the sentence do this.
puts find.post_match.match('old')

Thanks.



On Feb 3, 2008 2:09 AM, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:14:26 -0500, Chris Hickman wrote:
>
> > Corey Haines wrote:
> >> but if you can describe why you want to do it, there might be a
> >> different way
> >
> > It is kind of hard to explain but I have a long string that someone
> > typed into a form which was then saved into a database.  They used made
> > up tags such as "<choose1>, </choose1>, <row>, </row>, <tbl> ..."  I
> > have to translate the string into html and add javascript etc. based on
> > the different tags they wrote.
> >
> > I have it working for everything except one task.  In this one task I
> > want to pass the words between two tags as a value for the javascript.
> > The problem is it is pulling the phrase apart at every space.  I know I
> > can add .each(???) and have it pull everything apart at the ??? but it
> > would involve a lot of adding ??? to this long string.
> >
> > What I am trying to do is add a while loop inside the block that will
> > look ahead at the next substring to see if it is a "</choose1>".  If it
> > is I want it to exit the while loop and go on without throwing away the
> > "</choose1>" tag because it is needed next time through the block.
> >
> > Sorry if that didnt make sense at all.
>
> Might I suggest that using REXML (or another XML parser) may make more
> sense for what you're trying to do? First navigate your way through the
> tag structure, then you can get the text elements that you're trying to
> find.
>
>
>
> --
> Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
> http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ <http://www.iit.edu/%7Ekbloom1/>
>
>


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