"David Alan Black" <dblack / wobblini.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Note (from David Black): This was a message sent by Botp to ruby-talk
> that didn't make it through.  I resent it, with a small change, to see
> if it would make it, and it did.
>
> The change was to strip "Re:" and put "about" in the subject line....

I assume this is a stupid question, but the GW doesn't contain a header
detection regexp that looks like this:

/^(.*):\s+(.*)$/

>> /^(.*):\s+(.*)$/ =~ 'Subject: Re: foo bar'
=> 0
>> $1
=> "Subject: Re"
>> $2
=> "foo bar"

Really stupid question...

    robert


>
> "Peñá, Botp" <botp / delmonte-phil.com> writes:
>
> > GGarramuno / aol.com [mailto:GGarramuno / aol.com] wrote:
> >
> > > nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote in message
> > > news:<200406020151.i521pOHY005774 / sharui.nakada.niregi.kanuma.
> > > tochigi.jp>...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > At Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:43:42 +0900,
> > > > Sam Sungshik Kong wrote in [ruby-talk:102028]:
> > > > > s = "My name is %(name)s and my age is %(age)d." %
> > > {"name": "Sam",
> > > > > "age": 34}
> > > >
> > > > > I know that ruby has "#{name}" expression.
> > > > > But that requires a variable named "name" in advance.
> > > > > I want to bind the format string and data later.
> > > >
> > > > I proposed that feature once in [ruby-dev:16351], though
> > > rejected, but
> > > > still I think that it would be useful for I18N. Is it worth for
RCR?
> > >
> > > Do you have an example on how would you use this?  I ask
> > > because I would also vote strongly against it.
> > >
> > > One of the things that I really loved about ruby while
> > > learning it was its "#{}" syntax, as it seemed to me a much
> > > more consistent way of achieving what sprintf, $, %, etc.
> > > have been trying for years to achieve in languages like C,
> > > perl, python, etc.
> > >
> > > [snip good examples]
> > > The %s syntax is anything but readable once you have more
> > > than 3 elements.  Using a hash to try to clarify it seems to
> > > me more of a crutch for languages that do not support ruby's
> > > extremely powerful "#{}" formating. That syntax still forces
> > > me to look for meaning of the text format string in two
> > > different places (in the location of the text and at the end
> > > of it), instead of in a single place as I read the string,
> > > which seems like a step backwards overall.
> >
> >
> > I think the op implied late binding or late generation of string and
> > variables/hashes. I think ruby can do this w finesse, so we've seen
examples
> > of workarounds immediately posted (thanks guys, I learned a lot here).
> >
> > Thus
> > given foo_string % foo_hash, one can generate foo_string anytime one
> > wants and just tells it to "Hey foo_string, get your values from
foo_hash".
> > foo_hash of course may contain a lot of key-val pairs. We need not
> > care/worry of the order or counts of the vars since the foo_string
will just
> > pickup what it wants.
> >
> > This style is also good for structures and records in db, imho.
> >
> > I hope I was thinking straight here. Pls correct me guys if I'm wrong.
> > In this regard, I vote for Nobu's rcr.
> >
> > kind regards -botp
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> David A. Black
> dblack / wobblini.net