From: Muralidharan Regupathy <mregupathy@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T03:10:46+09:00
Subject: how to substitute group of words in a line with another text

I am trying to create a routine which will convert text to SMS lingo
format. For example a sentence might contain "This should be done as
soon as possible". I have created a HASH which stores "ASAP" => "as soon
as possible".
My routine should parse the message and subsitute with "ASAP" and return
a string "This should be done ASAP".

def SMSdeflater(message)

    @smsdictionary.each_pair do
      |key, value|
      tmpvalue = value.chomp.downcase
      msg=message.chomp.downcase
      puts "looking for <#{tmpvalue}> in <#{msg}>"
      newmsg=msg.gsub(tmpvalue,key)
      puts newmsg
 end

the above mentioned code is not working, any help is appreciated

thanks,
murali
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