From: ciapecki <ciapecki@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T19:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp conditional

On 19 Mrz., 22:28, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 19.03.2008 11:21, ciapecki wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 19 Mrz., 10:09, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
>
> >> My interpretation of what you need is:
>
> >>     input = '111|"aaaa" bbbbb|c'
>
> >>     fields = input.split('|')
> >>     fields[1].gsub!('"', '""')
> >>     fields[1] = %Q{"#{fields[1]}"}
>
> >>     output = fields.join('|')
>
> >> Depending on the input that may not be valid, for example if fields[1]
> >> may contain a pipe. Anyway being a mal-formed input assumptions depend
> >> on the actual data.
>
> > your solution works, and thanks for that,
> > I am waiting though for a regexp solution,
>
> Even 2 regexps:
>
> irb(main):001:0> input = '111|"aaaa" bbbbb|c'
> => "111|\"aaaa\" bbbbb|c"
> irb(main):002:0> input.gsub(/[^|]+/) {|m| m.gsub!(/"/,'""') ?
> '"'<<m<<'"' : m}
> => "111|\"\"\"aaaa\"\" bbbbb\"|c"
> irb(main):003:0> puts input.gsub(/[^|]+/) {|m| m.gsub!(/"/,'""') ?
> '"'<<m<<'"' : m}
> 111|"""aaaa"" bbbbb"|c
> => nil
>
> Cheers
>
>         robert

this is just great,
thanks robert for this


chris