From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T18:44:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion for string parsing

From: Me Me [mailto:emanuelef@tiscali.it] 
# I was thinking if there some kind of c sscanf,
# so that I could parse and assing to variable at the same time
# so if I have
# line="Client=MPEG-4,390000,700000,24000"
# something like:
# sscanf(line, %s=%s %s %d %d %d, val1, val2, val3, val4, val5, val6)
# I don't know if there's a similar string function for this in Ruby

you are right on scanf.
there is one in ruby, and it's a lot simpler than you think

you'll have to require it though before using,

eg,

> require 'scanf'
=> false

> line.scanf("%6s=%6s,%d,%d,%d,%d")
=> ["Client", "MPEG-4", 390000, 700000, 24000]