Mark Woodward
12/4/2007 12:25:00 PM
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:51:49 -0500
Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hi there
>
> im new to ruby and ive got a bit of a problem
new to this myself so take that into consideration ;-)
>
> basically i have a text file and i want my ruby class to perform a
> regular expression to count the lines with a Tag in the text file
>
> if anyone could offer any help or psuedo code id 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
>
> ruby code:
>
> #
> require 'getoptlong'
>
> opts = GetoptLong.new(
> ['--style', '-n', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
> ['--database', '-i', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT]
> )
> opts.each do |opt, arg|
> case opt
> when '--style'
> require arg
> when '--database'
> end
> end
> #
> #
> #
> # process options
> #
> #
> #
count = 0 (not sure I need that?)
> File.open('reference.txt').each do |line|
> # puts line
> Regexp.new
count += 1 if line =~ /^Tag:\s/
(not sure if I need to escape the ':' ie '\:')
> end
> #
> #
cheers,
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Mark