How to substitute group of words in a line with another text

Ruby
1

I am trying to create a routine which will convert text to SMS lingo
format. For example a sentence might contain “This should be done as
soon as possible”. I have created a HASH which stores “ASAP” => “as soon
as possible”.
My routine should parse the message and subsitute with “ASAP” and return
a string “This should be done ASAP”.

def SMSdeflater(message)

@smsdictionary.each_pair do
  |key, value|
  tmpvalue = value.chomp.downcase
  msg=message.chomp.downcase
  puts "looking for <#{tmpvalue}> in <#{msg}>"
  newmsg=msg.gsub(tmpvalue,key)
  puts newmsg

end

the above mentioned code is not working, any help is appreciated

thanks,
murali

2

On 03.04.2009 20:10, Muralidharan Regupathy wrote:

  |key, value|
  tmpvalue = value.chomp.downcase
  msg=message.chomp.downcase
  puts "looking for <#{tmpvalue}> in <#{msg}>"
  newmsg=msg.gsub(tmpvalue,key)
  puts newmsg

end

the above mentioned code is not working, any help is appreciated

If there are not many phrases you can use Regexp.union:

msg.gsub Regexp.union(@smsdictionary.keys) do |match|
@smsdictionary[match]
end

Kind regards

robert

3

Robert K. wrote:

On 03.04.2009 20:10, Muralidharan Regupathy wrote:

  |key, value|
  tmpvalue = value.chomp.downcase
  msg=message.chomp.downcase
  puts "looking for <#{tmpvalue}> in <#{msg}>"
  newmsg=msg.gsub(tmpvalue,key)
  puts newmsg

end

the above mentioned code is not working, any help is appreciated

If there are not many phrases you can use Regexp.union:

msg.gsub Regexp.union(@smsdictionary.keys) do |match|
@smsdictionary[match]
end

Kind regards

robert

Thanks Robert
However i tried otherway and it seems to work fine. I know my solution
is not a clean one but it works for my learning.
def SMSdeflater(message)
msg=message.chomp.downcase
@smsdictionary.each_pair do
|key, value|
tmpvalue = value.chomp.downcase
msg=msg.sub(tmpvalue,key)
puts msg
end
end