From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-01-11T06:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp question

Hi --

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mark Probert wrote:

>
> David.
>
> Many thanks, once again.
>
> At 06:30 AM 1/11/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>
> >I would use String#gsub:
>
> :-)
>
> >
> >   s2 = s1.gsub(/\{\\(\S+)\s([^}]*)\}/) do |s|
> >     tag = subs[$1] || $1
> >     "<#{tag}>#{$2}</#{tag}>"
> >   end
>
> Ruby continues to amaze me!  I didn't know that you
> could do that.  A much more elegant solution than mine.

And you can make it even better by taking out that spurious
"|s|" that I left in there :-)


David

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