Parsing A Query String With String#scan Into A Hash

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        For more information on the desired hash output, etc. see:

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/injectingAHashBackwardsAndTheMergeBlock.html

qs = "post[id]=4&post[nick]=_why&post[message]=GROSS & FOO!&a=1"  # query string

hash1 = {}
hash2 = {}
resulthash = {}
count = 0

qs.scan(/(post|a)(\[|=)(.*?)(?=(&post\[|&a=|$))/) {

var = $1 << $2 << $3  


case var

when /^(post)\[(.*?)\]=(.*?)$/ then 
               count += 1
               postnum = $1 << count.to_s
               hash1.update(postnum => {$2 => $3})

when /^(a)=(.*?)$/ then resulthash.update($1 => $2)

end


}

hash1.each_pair {|k, v| hash2.update(v)}
resulthash.update("post" => hash2)

puts resulthash.inspect 

Tags:
• hash
• parse
• query
• Ruby
• String