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I'm just starting out with ruby.

I'm trying to make an array of arrays containing [a pattern, a string,
a function]

Patterns and strings went fine but when I put in a function ruby tries
to eval it and complains about not getting right number of arguments.

Is there any way to escape a method so that you can put it in a list
or pass it as an argument to another function?

pats =3D [
[/:BEGIN.*)/, "DTSTART", Df.datestr2time ],
[/UE.*)/, "DUE", Df.datestr2time]
]


alex

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In article <ad9751290601151338k1384454fj64b900831961a4f6@mail .gmail.com>,
Alex Polite <> wrote:
>I'm just starting out with ruby.
>
>I'm trying to make an array of arrays containing [a pattern, a string,
>a function]
>
>Patterns and strings went fine but when I put in a function ruby tries
>to eval it and complains about not getting right number of arguments.
>
>Is there any way to escape a method so that you can put it in a list
>or pass it as an argument to another function?
>
>pats =3D [
> [/:BEGIN.*)/, "DTSTART", Df.datestr2time ],
> [/UE.*)/, "DUE", Df.datestr2time]
> ]
>

How about:

pats = [
[/:BEGIN.*)/, "DRSTART", Df.method(:datestr2time)],
[/UE.*)/, "DUE", Df.method(:datestr2time)]
]



Phil

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Alex Polite wrote:

> I'm just starting out with ruby.
>
> I'm trying to make an array of arrays containing [a pattern, a string,
> a function]
>
> Patterns and strings went fine but when I put in a function ruby tries
> to eval it and complains about not getting right number of arguments.
>
> Is there any way to escape a method so that you can put it in a list
> or pass it as an argument to another function?
>
> pats = [
> [/:BEGIN.*)/, "DTSTART", Df.datestr2time ],
> [/UE.*)/, "DUE", Df.datestr2time]
> ]

yes. but you don't need to, simply store the name of the method and use
'send':

harp:~ > cat a.rb
table =
[%r/:BEGIN.*)/, "DTSTART", "datestr2time"],
[%r/UE.*)/, "DUE", "datestr2time"]

#
# mock-up
#
class Df
def self::datestr2time string
p string
end
end

txt = <<-txt
:BEGIN:
UE:
txt

txt.each do |line|
table.each do |dispatch|
pat, string, method = dispatch
if pat.match line
Df::send method, string
end
end
end


harp:~ > ruby a.rb
"DTSTART"
"DUE"


regards.

-a
--
strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning?
preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like
thunder? -- milarepa

'send' is _much_ slower than 'method.call'. The first example is
probably the clearest and most efficient way to do this, especially in
a high-use function.