Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: jake kaiden Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:57:58 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <0be3e165974797b12de3053911b6f7e2@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302209905 94693 65.111.164.187 (7 Apr 2011 20:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:58:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <0be3e165974797b12de3053911b6f7e2@ruby-forum.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381148 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2486 Alexey Petrushin wrote in post #991484: > > I would prefer something like: > > "John Smith".gsub /(.+)\s(.+)/ do |name, family| > p [name, family] > > # instead of this > p [$1, $2] > end i also wonder if gsub is necessary... there's no replacement here as far as i can tell. my oversimplified monkey brain comes up with this: irb(main):001:0> str = "John Smith - Minister of Funny Walks." => "John Smith - Minister of Funny Walks." irb(main):002:0> arr = str.split(" ") => ["John", "Smith", "-", "Minister", "of", "Funny", "Walks."] irb(main):003:0> name, family = arr[0], arr[1] => ["John", "Smith"] irb(main):004:0> puts name John => nil irb(main):005:0> puts family Smith => nil this also makes some assumptions about the data, of course... -j -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.