ruby start_with?(), end_with?()
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Solution 1
You can just use a simple regular expression:
if line =~ /^\|.*\|$/
That way you can verify other things, like that the header has to be all caps and needs spaces around it (/^\|\s[A-Z]+\s\|$/
).
Solution 2
Did you try the RDoc?
"| LINKS |".start_with?("|") # => true
"| LINKS |".end_with?("|") # => true
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Updated on June 09, 2022Comments
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thotheolh almost 2 years
I have a document with subject headers being enclosed in "|" characters.
E.g. "| LINKS |"
I want to check the string if it begins and ends with "|" character to verify that the particular document's subject header is valid. How do I do so ?
Source:
@filetarget = " < document file location here > " @line = "" file = File.new(@filetarget) while (@line = file.gets) if((@line.start_with?("|")) and (@line.end_with?("|"))) puts "Putting: " + @line end end
Document text for parsing:
| LINKS | http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ <1> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming <2> http://xprogramming.com/index.php <3> | COMMENTS | * Test comment * Test comment 2 * Test comment 3