On Jun 29, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Yanni Mac wrote:
> > I am trying to figure out a (better) way to do the following: > > some_string = "Display a widget here - <widget>1234</widget>" > new_string = replace_widgets_in_string(some_string) > p new_string => #Display a widget here - Widget 1234 is blue" > > the method replace_widgets_in_string will need to pick out the xml tag > and value (which will be the model id) and from there I will find the > model and return a string that replaces the widget tags. > > Is there an existing library or easy way to do this that I might not > be > thinking of? I am assuming rexml wont work, since its not a well > formed > doc. I want to avoid coding a monolithic method using string splits. > Any ideas? Well, if you're string will only ever contain one instance of the widget this would work... >> some_string =~ /<(.*?)>(\d+)<\/\1>/ => 24 >> $1 => "widget" >> $2 => "1234" Otherwise I'd look into hpricot/nokigirl and let it parse it. -philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
