Q1 of BORQ - Mad Libs

My solution for Mad Libs, I need to practice some more regular expression. Rubular is a great help for people like me. RegExp is in a more free-form in Ruby compared to python, which is quite good for quick experiments on irb.

I wish I could even get rid of the "if"s and make it sexier. Can't think more on this one right now.

Q2. of BORQ - LCD display

This is an old one, pretty famously seen on uva, etc. I found Choice to be better than OptParse, as said in Choice docs - it like writing poems for command-line parsing :D

Initially I was doing a string[j].chr.to_i which seemed like a required bullshit, I wish it could've been string[j].to_i but string[i] gives back a decimal. Now one could talk about the C style '5'-'0' conversion to number, but then, that machine dependent (think ascii, ebcdic, etc). The slightly more ruby-ish way - string[j..j].to_i :)

Here's my number -

abhishekmishra@mbp [~/code/BORQ]> ruby q2_lcd_numbers.rb -s 3 9535009187
 ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---         ---   ---
|   | |         | |     |   | |   | |   |     | |   |     |
|   | |         | |     |   | |   | |   |     | |   |     |
|   | |         | |     |   | |   | |   |     | |   |     |
 ---   ---   ---   ---               ---         ---
    |     |     |     | |   | |   |     |     | |   |     |
    |     |     |     | |   | |   |     |     | |   |     |
    |     |     |     | |   | |   |     |     | |   |     |
       ---   ---   ---   ---   ---               ---

Surprisingly the PyMos core code is 180 lines while this reaches upto 108. Python => more results per line? The absence of 'end' in python is one big reason for this. Besides I dont find my ruby code so ruby-ish at this stage.