From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-12-18T21:43:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7568] Re: Ruby performance question

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> H> What about scan?  I cannot get this to work, but:
> 
>  If you want to use scan() you must not use \A(?:)+\Z otherwise you have
> only the last match "keyx=valuex"
> 
> H>     while line = file.readline
> H>        p  line.scan(/\A(?:([^=,]*)=([^=,]*),?)+\Z/)
> 
>           p line.chomp!.scan(/([^=,]*)=([^=,]*),?/)

I added those because I only seemed to get the last value anyway.:-)
> 
> H>     end
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
	Hugh