Mutterings

Ruby

Public Domain

Example code from Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby

Download (right click, save as, rename as appropriate)

Embed

       

Tags:

poignant ruby why 
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
#!/usr/bin/ruby

def wipe_mutterings_from( sentence )
  unless sentence.respond_to? :include?
    raise ArgumentError,
      "canot wipe mutterings from a #{ sentence.class }"
  end
  while sentence.include? '(' and sentence.include? ')'
#    open = sentence.index( '(' )
#    close = sentence.index( ')' , open)
#    sentence[open..close] = '' if close
    sentence.gsub!(/\s*\([^\(]*\)/, '')
  end
end

foo = "This is a sentence (with some mutterings)."

wipe_mutterings_from( foo )

p foo