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Hi,

I'm trying to write a parser for cooking recipes.
It looks like this:

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require 'bspmess'
class Parser

    STATES = [ :FIND_START, :SCAN_HEADER]
    
    methods = { :FIND_START => self.find_start,
                :SCAN_HEADER => self.scan_header
              }

    def initialize(msg)
        @msg = msg
        @state = :FIND_START
    end
    
    def run
        @msg.each { |line|
             scan line
        }
    end

    def scan(line)
        methods[@state].call(line)
    end
    
    def find_start(line)
        puts "find_start "
        @state = :SCAN_HEADER
    end
        
    def scan_header(line)
        puts "scan header"
    end
    
end

p = Parser.new(MSG)
p.run

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I get an error when the scan method is called first:
   undefined method `find_start' for Parser:Class (NoMethodError)

Who can help me ?

Thanks in advance,

Uwe

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This doesn't do what you want. It's trying to call the "find_start"
and "scan_header" methods on the Parser Class object. There are
several possibilities to do this correctly:

1. Call self.instance_method(:find_start) to get an unbound method,
which you'll need to #bind before calling it.

2. Construct your "methods" table in #initialize, and use
self.method(:find_start) to get a bound method.

3. Don't build a method table at all. Do this instead:

def scan(line)
     self.send(@state,line)
end

regards,
Ed

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:32:35AM +0900, Uwe Schmitt wrote:

    methods = { :FIND_START => self.find_start,
                :SCAN_HEADER => self.scan_header
              }