Method: Pkg::Util::Misc.search_and_replace

Defined in:
lib/packaging/util/misc.rb

.search_and_replace(search_string, replacements) ⇒ Object

This method takes a string and a list of tokens and variables and it replaces the listed tokens with the matched variable if it exists. All values will be explicitly coerced to strings.



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# File 'lib/packaging/util/misc.rb', line 9

def search_and_replace(search_string, replacements)
  raise ArgumentError "replacements must respond to #each_pair" unless
    replacements.respond_to? :each_pair

  replacements.each_pair do |token, value|
    unless value
      warn "replacement value for '#{token}' probably shouldn't be nil"
      next
    end

    search_string.gsub!(token.to_s, value.to_s)
  end

  search_string
end