IO

Public Instance Methods

scanf(str)

Scans the current string until the match is exhausted, yielding each match as it is encountered in the string. A block is not necessary though, as the results will simply be aggregated into the final array.

"123 456".block_scanf("%d")
# => [123, 456]

If a block is given, the value from that is returned from the yield is added to an output array.

"123 456".block_scanf("%d") do |digit,| # the ',' unpacks the Array
  digit + 100
end
# => [223, 556]

See Scanf for details on creating a format string.

You will need to require ‘scanf’ to use #scanf.

 
               # File scanf.rb, line 614
def scanf(str,&b) #:yield: current_match
  return block_scanf(str,&b) if b
  return [] unless str.size > 0

  start_position = pos rescue 0
  matched_so_far = 0
  source_buffer = ""
  result_buffer = []
  final_result = []

  fstr = Scanf::FormatString.new(str)

  loop do
    if eof || (tty? &&! fstr.match(source_buffer))
      final_result.concat(result_buffer)
      break
    end

    source_buffer << gets

    current_match = fstr.match(source_buffer)

    spec = fstr.last_spec_tried

    if spec.matched
      if spec.mid_match?
        result_buffer.replace(current_match)
        next
      end

    elsif (fstr.matched_count == fstr.spec_count - 1)
      if /\A\s*\z/.match(fstr.string_left)
        break if spec.count_space?
        result_buffer.replace(current_match)
        next
      end
    end

    final_result.concat(current_match)

    matched_so_far += source_buffer.size
    source_buffer.replace(fstr.string_left)
    matched_so_far -= source_buffer.size
    break if fstr.last_spec
    fstr.prune
  end

  begin
    seek(start_position + matched_so_far, IO::SEEK_SET)
  rescue Errno::ESPIPE
  end

  soak_up_spaces if fstr.last_spec && fstr.space

  return final_result
end