From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-12-27T02:42:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to parse this file

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> here is the basic code, output followed by a basic explanation
> 
>>   data=line.match /\"(\w+)\"\s+\"(\w+)\"/
> 
> ?? That won't remotely work, unless the "Question" and "Answer"
> are both single words, which seems unlikely :-)
> 
> Try something like    line.chomp.match /\"([^"]+)\"\s+\"([^"]+)\"/
> 
>>> '"What is the temperature?" "Pretty cold"'.match /\"(\w+)\"\s+\"(\w+)\"/
> => nil
>>> '"What is the temperature?" "Pretty cold"'.match /\"([^"]+)\"\s+\"([^"]+)\"/
> => #<MatchData "\"What is the temperature?\" \"Pretty cold\"" 1:"What
> is the temperature?" 2:"Pretty cold">
>>> result = '"What is the temperature?" "Pretty cold"'.match /\"([^"]+)\"\s+\"([^"]+)\"/
> => #<MatchData "\"What is the temperature?\" \"Pretty cold\"" 1:"What
> is the temperature?" 2:"Pretty cold">
>>> result[1]
> => "What is the temperature?"
>>> result[2]
> => "Pretty cold"
> 

I shouldn't reply when I am half awake =)

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Rajinder Yadav

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