Ruby - Re: [QUIZ] Sodoku Solver (#43) [SOLUTION]

You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

Author

Re: [QUIZ] Sodoku Solver (#43) [SOLUTION]

Gavin Kistner

2005-08-28, 6:59 pm

On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:49 PM, David Brady wrote:
> # Loads the @board array from a string matching the example above.
> def load(str)
> line_num = 0
> str.each_line do |line|
> line.gsub! '+', ''
> line.gsub! '-', ''
> line.gsub! '|', ''
> line.gsub! ' ', ' '
> line.gsub! '_', '0'
> line.strip!
> if line.length > 0
> l = line.split
> fail "Line length was #{l.length}" unless l.length == 9
> @board[line_num] = l.collect {|x| x.to_i}
> line_num += 1
> end
> end
>
> fail "Board is not valid." unless self.valid?
> end

How about just:
numbers = str.scan( /[\d_]/ ).collect{ |char| char.to_i }
and then check to see if you got 81 numbers or not (and split them up
into chunks of nine if you so desire).

If nothing else, how about :
line.gsub!( /[+| -]/, '' )

Sponsored Links