From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2012-12-07T06:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to get "translator" to work

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:51 PM, JD KF <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> So, basically, I'm trying to get the below code to work properly for
> "piglatin".  I have gotten it to work with mulitple words, if the word
> starts with a vowel, if the word starts with a consonant, and if the
> word starts with two consonants.  This was a hell of a lot of trial and
> error getting to this point.
>
> However, I am stuck and need a little help getting unstuck.  One thing
> about "piglatin" is that I need to turn words like "quale" into
> "alequay".  Also I need to have words like "square" to turn into
> "aresquay".  AKA, if qu shows up somewhere, I need those letters (and
> any that proceed it) to shift to the back and ad an +ay to the end.

> word = "squa­re"
=> "square"
> first, secon­d = word.­match(/(.*­qu)(.*)/).­captures
=> ["squ", "are"]
> "#{second}­#{first}ay­"
=> "aresquay"

Jesus.