n00b question

[Miles Chatterji]

somewhat new to ruby, and im trying to write a simple program to print
tags for php forums on my screen so I dont have to copy and paste
100 of them and change the pictures number every time. Example I have
127 pictures from a race that I would like to post, the tag is
[img]http://www.empiremotoring.org/pictures/pp.5.17.08/IMG_0987.jpg
and I would like the program to list the next one as

and so on, this is what I have so far, I am just having trouble getting
it add +1 to the end ever time because it dosent like numbers in the
string, I have tried several things but non of which worked out. Any
advice would be a great help here is the code

# Img forum tag lister



puts "What is your url: " # url from input
url = gets.chomp

puts "What is your files name: " # file name from input (IMG_ for canon
DSC_ for sony etc.)
file = gets.chomp

puts "How many files: " # # of files wanted to print from input
num = gets.to_i

puts "beginning file #: " # beginning number extension, ( number at end
of picture file eg IMG_0987, would be 0987)

bnum = gets.chomp

print ("

") *num.to_i #
prints IMG tag.

I realize that you can put the numbers into a sting without first
converting but the how would you go about having it add +1 after it has
been converted?

Thanks, --Miles

 

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

somewhat new to ruby, and im trying to write a simple program to print
tags for php forums on my screen so I dont have to copy and paste
100 of them and change the pictures number every time. Example I have
127 pictures from a race that I would like to post, the tag is
[img]http://www.empiremotoring.org/pictures/pp.5.17.08/IMG_0987.jpg
and I would like the program to list the next one as

and so on, this is what I have so far, I am just having trouble getting
it add +1 to the end ever time because it dosent like numbers in the
string, I have tried several things but non of which worked out. Any
advice would be a great help here is the code

# Img forum tag lister



puts "What is your url: " # url from input
url = gets.chomp

puts "What is your files name: " # file name from input (IMG_ for canon
DSC_ for sony etc.)
file = gets.chomp

puts "How many files: " # # of files wanted to print from input
num = gets.to_i

puts "beginning file #: " # beginning number extension, ( number at end
of picture file eg IMG_0987, would be 0987)

bnum = gets.chomp

print ("

") *num.to_i

try this:

num.times { puts "#{url}#{file}#{bnum=bnum.succ}.jpg" }

I realize that you can put the numbers into a sting without first
converting but the how would you go about having it add +1 after it has
been converted?

Thanks, --Miles

Regards,
Park Heesob

 

[Miles Chatterji]

Excellent, Thanks a lot.

 

[Axel Etzold]

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Datum: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:36:36 +0900
Von: Miles Chatterji <[email protected]>
An: (e-mail address removed)
Betreff: n00b question

somewhat new to ruby, and im trying to write a simple program to print
tags for php forums on my screen so I dont have to copy and paste
100 of them and change the pictures number every time. Example I have
127 pictures from a race that I would like to post, the tag is
[img]http://www.empiremotoring.org/pictures/pp.5.17.08/IMG_0987.jpg
and I would like the program to list the next one as

and so on, this is what I have so far, I am just having trouble getting
it add +1 to the end ever time because it dosent like numbers in the
string, I have tried several things but non of which worked out. Any
advice would be a great help here is the code

# Img forum tag lister



puts "What is your url: " # url from input
url = gets.chomp

puts "What is your files name: " # file name from input (IMG_ for canon
DSC_ for sony etc.)
file = gets.chomp

puts "How many files: " # # of files wanted to print from input
num = gets.to_i

puts "beginning file #: " # beginning number extension, ( number at end
of picture file eg IMG_0987, would be 0987)

bnum = gets.chomp

print ("

") *num.to_i #
prints IMG tag.

I realize that you can put the numbers into a sting without first
converting but the how would you go about having it add +1 after it has
been converted?

Hi Miles,

you can use the pound sign :

res='5'
p "The answer is #{res=res.succ}"
p res

res=5
p "The answer is #{res=res.succ}"
p res

... but, be careful for "negative number-strings" ...

Best regards,

Axel




to evaluate

 

[Miles Chatterji]

Thanks for the help and the quick replys, that helped out a lot and
learned something new.

 

[Dave Bass]

Or you could use a regexp on the string to separate out the number, then
increment it, and put the string back together again.

But this is a Ruby Nooby here, fresh from Perl and still finding out how
to do things the proper Ruby way. ;-)