From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T06:49:04+09:00
Subject: Re: golf: tabs to bullets

Hi --

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Martin DeMello wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I didn't really golf it, but my answer is:
>
> You have a point - I wasn't looking for golf so much as for neat
> and/or offbeat approaches to the problem of counting the tabs.

Darn, I took you literally :-)

def t(s)b='*-ox';s.map{|l|c=l.count("\t")
(c-1).times{l.sub!(/\t/,' ')}
l.sub(/\t/,b[c-1,1])}end

t(some_string)

(Thanks to JEG2 for reminding me of count, which I had hypercorrected
in my mind into thinking only existed in 1.9 because of Array#count
:-)


David

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