From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T19:07:09+09:00
Subject: [ann] iterator-0.7

homepage:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=iterator

download:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=18&release_id=467


External iterators with some STL inspiration.


#
# example of how to do multiway each
#
require 'iterator'
data_a = %w(a b c d)
data_b = (0..3)
ia = Iterator::Continuation.new(data_a, :each)
ib = Iterator::Continuation.new(data_b, :each)
result = []
while ia.has_next? and ib.has_next?
  result << ia.current
  result << ib.current
  ia.next
  ib.next
end
ia.close
ib.close
p result   # ["a", 0, "b", 1, "c", 2, "d", 3] 




#
# example of how to concat iterators 
#
require 'iterator'
ary1 = "Hell".split(//).to_a
ary2 = "O wO".split(//).to_a
ary3 = "rld!".split(//).to_a
i1 = ary1.create_iterator
i2 = ary2.create_iterator
i3 = ary3.create_iterator
iterator = Iterator::Concat.new([i1, i2, i3])
ary2.map!{|i|i.swapcase}
puts iterator.to_a.join  #-> Hello World! 


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Simon Strandgaard