From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T07:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Need examples comparing Ruby to Python

Hi --

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jim Weirich wrote:

> 
> 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}
                                                       ^^
s/it/t/ :-)

(I wonder whether it would be faster/slower/same to do:

   f,l,n,t = line.squeeze.split('|').collect{|t| t.strip}

but I'm feeling too lazy to haul out benchmark.rb right now :-)


David

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David A. Black
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