On 8 Oct 2008, at 19:00, David Trasbo wrote:
>
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
>> I'd have a look a string scanner if I were you
>> Fred
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
> That's exactly what I've been thinking of, but the real challenge is
> to
> get the regular expression right. It needs to respect multiple
> arguments. Any suggestions?
that's the point - with stringscanner you don't need to come up with
one giant regular expression that gets everything right
as a quick example, this
require 'strscan'
s = StringScanner.new('blah {some_partial arg1:foo arg2:bar} other
stuff here {otherpartial arg1:baz}')
while s.scan_until /\{/
puts "start of call"
puts s.scan /\w+/
s.skip /\s+/
while output=s.scan( /\w+:\w+/)
puts output
s.skip /\s+/
end
s.skip_until /\}/
puts "end of call"
end
outputs
start of call
some_partial
arg1:foo
arg2:bar
end of call
start of call
otherpartial
arg1:baz
end of call
Fred
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