From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-04-21T16:01:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Input: sentence Modify: words Output: modified sentence

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Building on what Matthew and tamouse demonstrated (I didn't know about
> the block form before), I've come up with this:
>
> code:
> _____
>
> puts gets.chomp.gsub(
> /\b([[:alpha:]'\-&&[^\d]])([[:alpha:]'\-&&[^\d]]{1,})([[:alpha:]'\-&&[^\d]])\b/
> ) { "#{ $1 }#{ $2.length }#{ $3 }" }
> _____
>
> input:
>
> "There won't be a cul-de-sac on 2nd St. until April 3, 2015. But, we'll
> be waiting."
>
> output:
>
> "T3e w3t be a c8c on 2nd St. u3l A3l 3, 2015. B1t, w3l be w5g."
>
> We could go on refining this forever with unusual use cases :p

These little exercises are great for playing around with things.