On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 00:47 +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> Will this work? (I used + instead of space as in your example)
> 
> str = "bla.h+aoeu.++test.\n+.hello"
> p str.gsub(/\.\+|\+\.|\./) { |s| 
>   case s
>   when '+.' then '.'
>   when '.+' then '+'
>   else "\n"
>   end
> }
> ==> "bla\nh+aoeu++test\n\n.hello"

Hey that's cool, I didn't know you could do that.
I think i'll stick with my queue solution though. The thing i failed to
mention is that i want to tokenize across spaces not preceded or
followed by a dot. I'm also forming it into a tree structure at the same
time....
Thanks for the gsub tip though!
-- 
Luke Worth