From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T07:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: golf: tabs to bullets

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@gmail.com> wrote:
> Similar to Joel's approach...
>
>  #bullets.rb
>  h={}
>  %w(\  * - o x).each_with_index{|b, i| h["\t" * i]=  " " * i + "#{b} " }
>  puts gets.gsub(/^(\t*)/){ h[$1]} until $stdin.eof?
>
>  C:\ruby\scripts\>cat input_file | ruby bullets.rb
>
>
>   foo
>   * bar
>   - baz
>    o hello
>   - world
>


Except it was broken.  I'll try it again.

 #bullets.rb
h={''=>''}
%w(* - o x).each_with_index{|b, i| h["\t" * (i+1)]=  "#{' ' * i}#{b} " }
puts gets.gsub(/^(\t*)/){ h[$1] } until $stdin.eof?