From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T19:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: extract data from an array

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Sijo Kg <sijo@maxxion.com> wrote:
> Hi
>     I have a while loop as below
>
>  while count <= total_ci_id_asso_types do
>         v = "sd_ci"+"#{count}"
>         ci_id_asso_type=params[:"#{v}"]
>         count=count+1
>  end
>
>  for example
>  puts ci_id_asso_type gives
>  id45service_desk_ci_association_type_id1
>  id65service_desk_ci_association_type_id1   etc
>
>  What I need is to get
>  45,1
>  65,1 (ie two numbers) from above..How can I do that
>
>  Thanks in advance
>  Sijo

s = "id45service_desk_ci_association_type_id1"
(s.match /(\d+)service_desk_ci_association_type_id(\d+)/)[1,2].join(',')
=> "45,1"

Also, instead of params[:"#{v}"], you can just do params[v.to_sym] or
params[v.intern]

Todd