From: "Bermejo, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T10:09:23+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

 # sub { block way! }

    result.sub!(/\{(.+)\}/) { "["+$1+"]" }

-ronnie.


Simon Strandgaard wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:31:29 +0000, Koncept wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi. What a fantastic language. This is my first day learning using it
>>and I *love* it so far.
>>    
>>
>
>Great.. Welcome to Ruby.
>
>[snip]
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>>result = result.sub(/\{/,'[')
>>result = result.sub(/\}/,']')
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>What you has written is the same as (notice the '!' suffix)
>
>  result.sub!(/\{/,'[')
>  result.sub!(/\}/,']')
>
>Above can be chained, so it becomes
>
>  result.sub!(/\{/,'[').sub!(/\}/,']')
> 
>  
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>>Any suggestions are more than welcome.
>>    
>>
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>Try 'gsub'
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>  result.gsub!(/\{/,'[').gsub!(/\}/,']')
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>
>--
>Simon Strandgaard
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>