Pulling values from strings

#1

I have a string of data that I am trying to pull values from and have
hit a roadblack since I am still getting the hang of Ruby, in Perl this
would be easier but it seems that Ruby may be able to do this much
simpler.

My data starts as -
send data StartTime: 20090413 13:41:53.000 ScriptName:changeTests
Pass:15 Fail:0 Total:15

Then I am able to regex it to something like -
ScriptName:changeTests Pass:15 Fail:0 Total:15

The code I have is:
if line =~ /data/
# Remove everything from the beginning up to ScriptName
line.sub!(/^send.*\d\d\d\s/,"")
# Split the line by space, then get pairs by :
arr = line.split(/\s/).map do |i|
t = i.sub(/[a-zA-Z]+:([a-zA-Z]+|\d{2,3})/)
end
end

After the arr = line.split I am not sure what to do, I was playing
around with various ways of pulling the data out but I am not totally
clear on Ruby data structures. What I would like to do is pull out all
the values to the right of the :'s and save them for a SQL insert
statement, this is data I would like to store in a database after
pulling out the values I need. Is it easier to use map to be able to
iterate through the values, or can I actually split the data line so
that I can end up with each combined value sort of acting like a hash
key? I’d appreciate some hints on what might be a good next step so
that after arr I should be able to have values like:
ScriptName = changeTests
Pass = 15
Fail = 0
Total = 15

Thanks

#2

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Michael Furmaniuk
removed_email_address@domain.invalid wrote:

ScriptName:changeTests Pass:15 Fail:0 Total:15

ScriptName = changeTests
Pass = 15
Fail = 0
Total = 15
Not tested but maybe you can fix errors :wink:

x.split(/\s*(\w+):\s*/)[-8…-1].each_cons(2).map{ |k,v| “#{k} = #{v}” }

which gives you data like

[“ScriptName = changeTests”, “changeTests = Pass”, “Pass = 15”, “15 =
Fail”, “Fail = 0”, “0 = Total”, “Total = 15”]

which if printed with puts gives you the output above.

Note also that instead of that you could create a Hash

Hash[ x.split(/\s(\w+):\s*/)[-8…-1]]

HTH
Robert

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#3

Robert D. wrote:

x.split(/\s*(\w+):\s*/)[-8…-1].each_cons(2).map{ |k,v| “#{k} = #{v}” }

Scan is also useful for this kind of thing…

s = “ScriptName:changeTests Pass:15 Fail:0 Total:15”
p s.scan(/(\w+):(\S+)/)

==> [[“ScriptName”, “changeTests”], [“Pass”, “15”], [“Fail”, “0”],

[“Total”, “15”]]

To deal with the full string:

s = “send data StartTime: 20090413 13:41:53.000 ScriptName:changeTests
Pass:15 Fail:0 Total:15”
a = s.scan(/(\w+):\s*([\s\d:.]+|\S+)/)
p a

==> [[“StartTime”, "20090413 13:41:53.000 "], [“ScriptName”,

“changeTests”], [“Pass”, "15 "], [“Fail”, "0 "], [“Total”, “15”]]
a.shift
a.each {|key,val| puts “#{key} = #{val}”}

==>

ScriptName = changeTests

Pass = 15

Fail = 0

Total = 15

#4

Seems I used only the second best tool for the job ;).
R.

#5

Hmm…didn’t realize I had this many options for it all.

Thanks…of course now I have to study these so I can understand what is
going on…ahh the learning!