From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T05:20:57+09:00
Subject: Re: string with \

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Vrone Ve wrote:
> What if There is some optional value which may appear in strings
> oftenly, and i want to check against its attribute value. or in other
> words its not necesary to have Name with its value every time in the
> string, and i want to have some checks on it ( e.g if Name attribute  
> is
> there then grab its value before the back slash, then moving along all
> other attributes and chk there occurance take their value)
>
> thanks again

irb> "ABC\\Name X\\Gender Z\\Person ".scan(/([^\\]+)\\(\w+)\s?/)
=> [["ABC", "Name"], ["X", "Gender"], ["Z", "Person"]]
irb> alist = _
=> [["ABC", "Name"], ["X", "Gender"], ["Z", "Person"]]
irb> alist.rassoc('Name')
=> ["ABC", "Name"]
irb> alist.rassoc('Person')
=> ["Z", "Person"]
irb> alist.rassoc('Optional')
=> nil

If you still can't figure it out, either hire someone or at least post  
your actual problem with some real data.  Even a little code fragment  
that you think is close, but perhaps misbehaving in a few cases.   
Showing those cases as tests would be even better. ;-)

-Rob


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