From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T06:59:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Need examples comparing Ruby to Python


David MacQuigg said:
> Here is what I would like to say in Python, but can't because
> line.split() produces a list, and the subsequent methods don't apply
> to lists.  I'll bet this would work in Ruby, but I don't know enough
> Ruby to say for sure.
>
> file, length, name, title = line.split('|').strip.split.join()
>
> The goal is to produce a list of strings with whitespace and newlines
> stripped off the ends, and whitespace squeezed out of the middle of
> each string.

Is this what you want ...

file, length, name, title = line.split('|').collect{|it| t.squeeze.strip}

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