Frederick Cheung wrote:
>> 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
Aha! I thought you meant the RegExp#scan method.
> 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
This looks just great! I'll return when I've written a complete method.
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