Hash

Ruby
1

Hi

iv started writing a class which reads the data from a text file and
counts the number of Tags

however im having a struggle as I want to split the tag and the data
into a hash i.e the Tag is the index and the data is the rest

if anyone could provide me with any psuedo code i’d be very appreciative
my code is below

Many Thanks

text file:

Tag: ref1
Type: Book
Author: Little, S R

Tag: ref2
Type: Journal
Author: Smith, J

Tag: ref3
Type: Conference Paper
Author: Williams, M

Tag: ref4
Type: Book
Author: Jones, M B

ruby class:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require ‘getoptlong’

opts = GetoptLong.new(
[’–style’, ‘-n’, GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
[’–database’, ‘-i’, GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT]
)

$linecount = 0

opts.each do |opt, arg|
case opt
when ‘–style’
require arg
when ‘–database’
end
end

process options

File.open(‘reference.txt’).each do |line|
if line =~ /^tag:/i
$linecount += 1
end
end
puts $linecount

2

Johnathan S. wrote:

File.open(‘reference.txt’).each do |line|
if line =~ /^tag:/i
$linecount += 1
end
end
puts $linecount

try something like this:

linecount = 0
results = []
hash = {}
File.open(‘reference.txt’).each do |line|
m = line.match /^(\w+):\s*([\w+,\s]+)$/
unless m
results << hash unless hash.empty?
hash = {}
else
linecount += 1
hash[m[1]] = m[2].chomp
end
end

3

On Dec 4, 7:30 am, Johnathan S. [email protected] wrote:

Tag: ref3
Type: Conference Paper
Author: Williams, M

Tag: ref4
Type: Book
Author: Jones, M B

info = {}
last_tag = nil

Could be File.readlines

DATA.each_line{ |line|
_, key, data = line.match( /^(\w+): (.+)/ ).to_a
next unless key # skip blank lines
if key == “Tag”
last_tag = data
info[ data ] = {}
else
info[ last_tag ][ key ] = data
end
}

require ‘pp’
pp info
#=> {"ref4 "=>{“Author”=>“Jones, M B”, “Type”=>"Book "},
#=> "ref3 "=>{“Author”=>"Williams, M ", “Type”=>"Conference Paper "},
#=> "ref2 "=>{“Author”=>"Smith, J ", “Type”=>"Journal "},
#=> "ref1 "=>{“Author”=>"Little, S R ", “Type”=>"Book "}}

END
Tag: ref1
Type: Book
Author: Little, S R

Tag: ref2
Type: Journal
Author: Smith, J

Tag: ref3
Type: Conference Paper
Author: Williams, M

Tag: ref4
Type: Book
Author: Jones, M B

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On Dec 4, 8:19 am, Phrogz [email protected] wrote:

On Dec 4, 7:30 am, Johnathan S. [email protected] wrote:

iv started writing a class which reads the data from a text file and
counts the number of Tags

however im having a struggle as I want to split the tag and the data
into a hash i.e the Tag is the index and the data is the rest

Here’s another variation:

Could be IO.read

info = Hash[ *DATA.read.split( /\n\n+/ ).map{ |chunk|
pieces = chunk.scan /^(\w+): (.+)/
first = pieces.shift
raise “Uhm…I was assuming Tag comes first” unless first[0] ==
“Tag”
[ first[1], Hash[ *pieces.flatten ] ]
}.flatten ]

require ‘pp’
pp info
#=> {"ref4 "=>{“Author”=>“Jones, M B”, “Type”=>"Book "},
#=> "ref3 "=>{“Author”=>"Williams, M ", “Type”=>"Conference Paper "},
#=> "ref2 "=>{“Author”=>"Smith, J ", “Type”=>"Journal "},
#=> "ref1 "=>{“Author”=>"Little, S R ", “Type”=>"Book "}}

END
Tag: ref1
Type: Book
Author: Little, S R

Tag: ref2
Type: Journal
Author: Smith, J

Tag: ref3
Type: Conference Paper
Author: Williams, M

Tag: ref4
Type: Book
Author: Jones, M B

5

On Dec 4, 9:42 am, Johnathan S. [email protected] wrote:

what i want to do is to create an empty hash every time it encounters a
Tag
line, and if it encounters any other field, put the field and the
related
value in the hash, using the field name (e.g Type and Author) as the key

im not sure if any of the help you provived achieves this but any help
on this matter would be greatly appreciated

Unless I’m misunderstanding you, both of the solutions I provided do
what you are describing.

You can even see this logic explicitly here, in the first solution:
if key == “Tag”
last_tag = data
info[ data ] = {}
else
info[ last_tag ][ key ] = data
end

Does the output not look like what you expect?

pp info
#=> {"ref4 "=>{“Author”=>“Jones, M B”, “Type”=>"Book "},
#=> "ref3 "=>{“Author”=>"Williams, M ", “Type”=>"Conference Paper
"},
#=> "ref2 "=>{“Author”=>"Smith, J ", “Type”=>"Journal "},
#=> "ref1 "=>{“Author”=>"Little, S R ", “Type”=>"Book "}}

If not, what actual output did you want?

6

Hi,

thanks for the awesome response I appreciate it

however, i think i may have misunderstood what i was trying to achieve.

what i want to do is to create an empty hash every time it encounters a
Tag
line, and if it encounters any other field, put the field and the
related
value in the hash, using the field name (e.g Type and Author) as the key

im not sure if any of the help you provived achieves this but any help
on this matter would be greatly appreciated

many thanks

7

im just expecting an output of every time it encounters a tag to create
an empty hash containing the other fields using the fields as the key

im having trouble getting the code u provided to work can you see my
errors?

require ‘getoptlong’

opts = GetoptLong.new(
[’–style’, ‘-n’, GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
[’–database’, ‘-i’, GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT]
)

$linecount = 0

opts.each do |opt, arg|
case opt
when ‘–style’
require arg
when ‘–database’
end
end

process options

File.open(‘reference.txt’).each do |line|
if line =~ /^tag:/i
$linecount += 1
end
end
puts $linecount

info = {}
last_tag = nil

data.each_line{ |line| _, key, data = line.match( /^(\w+): (.+)/
).to_a
next unless key # skip blank lines
if key == “Tag”
last_tag = data
info[ data ] = {}
else
info[ last_tag ][ key ] = data
end
}