Problem with block

Ruby
1

Why does the following method return nil?

def foo
info = " What |Removed |Added

                   Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
     "

result = Hash.new
info.each do |line|
if line.scan(/|/)
field, oldVal, newVal = line.chomp.split(/\s*|\s*/)
if (field == ‘Status’)
result[‘status’] = newVal
end
end
end
result
end

Also, for some reason the statement “if (field == ‘Status’)” doesn’t
return true.

Thanks,

Andy.

2

Andy [email protected] writes:

   field, oldVal, newVal = line.chomp.split(/\s*\|\s*/)
   if (field == 'Status')
     result['status'] = newVal
   end
 end

end
result
end

You are not invoking the function “foo”, just defining it. Therefore,
none of the code within “foo” gets executed. If you invoke foo after
the final “end” statement, you will see a non-nil result.

Also, for some reason the statement “if (field == ‘Status’)” doesn’t
return true.

The regular expression passed to the line.chomp.split method does not
cause the leading spaces to get stripped out of the string stored in
“field” … just any trailing spaces that might exist (of which there
are none). Therefore, you should do this:

if (field.strip == ‘Status’)

… or something similar.

3

Lloyd Z. wrote:

The regular expression passed to the line.chomp.split method does not
cause the leading spaces to get stripped out of the string stored in
“field” … just any trailing spaces that might exist (of which there
are none). Therefore, you should do this:

if (field.strip == ‘Status’)

… or something similar.

Adding strip to split statement does the trick
‘line.chomp.strip.split’

Thanks for the help,

Andy.