From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-09-20T16:59:34+09:00
Subject: Re: array.map! + delete_if possible ?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Kassym Dorsel <k.dorsel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer. Here is the initial array.
>
> arr[0]=1201 0 "userid" 1202 0 "lname" 1203 0 "mname" 1204 0 "lname" 1217
> 0 "password"
> arr[1]=
> arr[2]=4 0 emailaddress
> arr[3]=1201 0 "userid" 1202 0 "lname" 1203 0 "mname" 1204 0 "lname" 1217
> 0 "password"
> arr[4]=
> arr[5]=1201 0 "userid" 1202 0 "lname" 1203 0 "mname" 1204 0 "lname" 1217
> 0 "password"
>
> The email address line is random depending if the user inputed one or
> not and may or may not show up.
>
> I want to end up with this :
>
> arr[0]=userid::lname::mname::lname::password::emailaddress
> etc

https://gist.github.com/1228601

> In the end I iterate over this array and input the info data into a
> database. I don't think I can combine both loops because I need to check
> index for the email and if found go back to index-1 for the rest of the
> info and then input into database.

I picked the approach to identify fields by their number and create
records based on that.

> Also instead of using arr.delete("") could I not use
> arr.delete(/[^14}*/), but does not seem to work.

Kind regards

robert

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