file = File.read(“test1.txt”)
And, I’m getting this:
Peter
Dir.chdir(“C:/users/pb4072/documents”) do |d|
file = File.read(“test1.txt”)
output = file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</
emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}”
end
File.open(“test1.txt”, “w”) { |f| f.write output }
end
Note the use of three capture groups to get the unchanged initial and
final parts as well as the middle part that is altered. The %r{\b\w+
\b} is a Regexp that matches words, \b is a word-boundary and \w is a
word-character (short for [a-zA-Z0-9_]). Your use of
String#capitalize! returns nil if no change is made.
file = File.read(“test1.txt”)
And, I’m getting this:
Peter
Dir.chdir(“C:/users/pb4072/documents”) do |d|
file = File.read(“test1.txt”)
output = file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</
emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}”
end
File.open(“test1.txt”, “w”) { |f| f.write output }
end
Note the use of three capture groups to get the unchanged initial and
final parts as well as the middle part that is altered. The %r{\b\w+
\b} is a Regexp that matches words, \b is a word-boundary and \w is a
word-character (short for [a-zA-Z0-9_]). Your use of
String#capitalize! returns nil if no change is made.
Thanks, Rob. This works beautifully, except that I need that last
in my output. It’s being stripped with your code. I don’t see
why, because it’s just your $3, isn’t it?
Thanks, Rob. This works beautifully, except that I need that last
in my output. It’s being stripped with your code. I don’t see
why, because it’s just your $3, isn’t it?
You said to Todd:
The original text is just:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LAZY DOG.</emph>/
I assumed that the “</emph>/” part was a cut-n-paste of a regexp for
the email (which is one reason that I change from // to %r{}
construction of the Regexp so the / wouldn’t have to be escaped. You
may have to change the second group to (.*?) [reluctant match rather
than greedy match] or adjust the third group to exactly match your
input.
Dir.chdir(“C:/users/pb4072/documents”) do |d| file =
File.read(“test1.txt”) output =
file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}” end
File.open(“test1.txt”, “w”) { |f| f.write output } end
Here’s what I get. It works great, but, I don’t understand why
the $3 text is simply blown away.
because it’s reset when you’re doing that gsub on $2. the capture
variables only refer to the last match. so you have to capture
them into local variables first (can’t think of a better way right now).
Thanks, Rob. This works beautifully, except that I need that last
in my output. It’s being stripped with your code. I don’t see
why, because it’s just your $3, isn’t it?
You said to Todd:
The original text is just:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LAZY DOG.</emph>/
I assumed that the “</emph>/” part was a cut-n-paste of a regexp for
the email (which is one reason that I change from // to %r{}
construction of the Regexp so the / wouldn’t have to be escaped. You
may have to change the second group to (.*?) [reluctant match rather
than greedy match] or adjust the third group to exactly match your
input.
Rob,
So, here’s my original file:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LAZY DOG.
Here’s my code, from you:
Dir.chdir(“C:/users/pb4072/documents”) do |d|
file = File.read(“test1.txt”)
output = file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}”
end
File.open(“test1.txt”, “w”) { |f| f.write output }
end
Here’s what I get. It works great, but, I don’t understand why the $3
text is simply blown away.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The
Lazy Dog.
Here’s what I get. It works great, but, I don’t understand why
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Ah yes! Good catch, Jens.
Peter, you only need to capture $3, but it would make sense to get
them all:
why, because it’s just your $3, isn’t it?
construction of the Regexp so the / wouldn’t have to be escaped. You
So, here’s my original file:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LAZY DOG.
OK, change this to a regexp:
surround with the regexp literal bits
%r{THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LAZY DOG.}m
add the grouping ()'s
%r{()(THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER
THE
LAZY DOG.)()}m
replace text with wildcards .* or .?
%r{()(.?)()}m
(optional?) add anchor ^
%r{^()(.*?)()}m
I’m assuming that is not the WHOLE file since the
tags are not closed. It it quite likely that .* is slurping a lot
more that you think so that’s why I’ve change this to .*? which
matches as little as possible while continuing to succeed.
output = file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}”
end
oh, and for the fun of it, here’s what you can do with oniguruma:
head, content, tail = $1, $2, $3
“#{head}#{content.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{tail}”
now here’s a quick implementation that passes the MatchData object
into the block:
output = file.gsub(%r{^()(.*)(</emph>)}m) do |match|
“#{$1}#{$2.gsub(%r{\b\w+\b}){|w|w.capitalize}}#{$3}”
end
oh, and for the fun of it, here’s what you can do with oniguruma:
Sorry, Jens, but, I have no idea what you’re referring to here. I
googled oniguruma. I see what it is. I installed it, but, it didn’t seem
to install successfully. Do I do a “require oniguruma” at the top of my
script?
Do I do a “require oniguruma” at the top of my script?
sure. but you really don’t need it to solve your task at hand.
it’s just the new regexp engine for ruby 1.9 and sometimes i like to
do some stuff with it that the default engine of 1.8 can’t do
(zero-width look-behind in this case).
you can still simplify your substitution by using the look-ahead
(which 1.8 does understand), so you get rid of the third capture:
Do I do a “require oniguruma” at the top of my script?
sure. but you really don’t need it to solve your task at hand.
it’s just the new regexp engine for ruby 1.9 and sometimes i like to
do some stuff with it that the default engine of 1.8 can’t do
(zero-width look-behind in this case).
you can still simplify your substitution by using the look-ahead
(which 1.8 does understand), so you get rid of the third capture:
Do I do a “require oniguruma” at the top of my script?
sure. but you really don’t need it to solve your task at hand.
Thanks. But, again, do I need to do a “require” for oniguruma at
the top?
if you want to use oniguruma, then yes, you have to require it first.
Do I do a “require oniguruma” at the top of my script?
sure. but you really don’t need it to solve your task at hand.
Thanks. But, again, do I need to do a “require” for oniguruma at
the top?
if you want to use oniguruma, then yes, you have to require it first.
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