CMSC 330: Organization of Programming LanguagesRuby and Regular Expressions2Introduction• Ruby is an object-oriented, imperative scripting language– “I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language.”– “I believe people want to express themselves when they program. They don't want to fight with the language. Programming languages must feel natural to programmers. I tried to make people enjoy programming and concentrate on the fun and creative part of programming when they use Ruby.”– Yukihiro Matsumoto (“Matz”)3Books on Ruby– Earlier version of Thomas book available on web• See course web page4Applications of Scripting Languages• Scripting languages have many uses– Automating system administration– Automating user tasks– Quick-and-dirty development• Major application:Text processing5Output from Command-Line Tool% wc *271 674 5323 AST.c100 392 3219 AST.h117 1459 238788 AST.o1874 5428 47461 AST_defs.c1375 6307 53667 AST_defs.h371 884 9483 AST_parent.c810 2328 24589 AST_print.c640 3070 33530 AST_types.h285 846 7081 AST_utils.c59 274 2154 AST_utils.h50 400 28756 AST_utils.o866 2757 25873 Makefile270 725 5578 Makefile.am866 2743 27320 Makefile.in38 175 1154 alloca.c2035 4516 47721 aloctypes.c86 350 3286 aloctypes.h104 1051 66848 aloctypes.o...6Climate Data for IAD in August, 2005================================================================================1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18AVG MX 2MINDY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR================================================================================1 87 66 77 1 0 12 0.00 0.0 0 2.5 9 200 M M 7 18 12 2102 92 67 80 4 0 15 0.00 0.0 0 3.5 10 10 M M 3 18 17 3203 93 69 81 5 0 16 0.00 0.0 0 4.1 13 360 M M 2 18 17 3604 95 69 82 6 0 17 0.00 0.0 0 3.6 9 310 M M 3 18 12 2905 94 73 84 8 0 19 0.00 0.0 0 5.9 18 10 M M 3 18 25 3606 89 70 80 4 0 15 0.02 0.0 0 5.3 20 200 M M 6 138 23 2107 89 69 79 3 0 14 0.00 0.0 0 3.6 14 200 M M 7 1 16 2108 86 70 78 3 0 13 0.74 0.0 0 4.4 17 150 M M 10 18 23 1509 76 70 73 -2 0 8 0.19 0.0 0 4.1 9 90 M M 9 18 13 9010 87 71 79 4 0 14 0.00 0.0 0 2.3 8 260 M M 8 1 10 210...7Raw Census 2000 Data for DCu108_S,DC,000,01,0000001,572059,72264,572059,12.6,572059,572059,572059,0,0,0,0,572059,175306,343213,2006,14762,383,21728,14661,572059,527044,158617,340061,1560,14605,291,1638,10272,45015,16689,3152,446,157,92,20090,4389,572059,268827,3362,3048,3170,3241,3504,3286,3270,3475,3939,3647,3525,3044,2928,2913,2769,2752,2933,2703,4056,5501,5217,4969,13555,24995,24216,23726,20721,18802,16523,12318,4345,5810,3423,4690,7105,5739,3260,2347,303232,3329,3057,2935,3429,3326,3456,3257,3754,3192,3523,3336,3276,2989,2838,2824,2624,2807,2871,4941,6588,5625,5563,17177,27475,24377,22818,21319,20851,19117,15260,5066,6708,4257,6117,10741,9427,6807,6175,572059,536373,370675,115963,55603,60360,57949,129440,122518,3754,3168,22448,9967,4638,14110,16160,165698,61049,47694,13355,71578,60875,10703,33071,35686,7573,28113,248590,108569,47694,60875,140021,115963,58050,21654,36396,57913,10355,4065,6290,47558,25229,22329,24058,13355,10703,70088,65737,37112,21742,12267,9475,9723,2573,2314,760,28625,8207,7469,738,19185,18172,1013,1233,4351,3610,741,248590,199456,94221,46274,21443,24831,47947,8705,3979,4726,39242,25175,14067,105235,82928,22307,49134,21742,11776,211,11565,9966,1650,86,1564,8316,54,8262,27392,25641,1751,248590,115963,4999,22466,26165,24062,16529,12409,7594,1739,132627,11670,32445,23225,21661,16234,12795,10563,4034,248590,115963,48738,28914,19259,10312,4748,3992,132627,108569,19284,2713,1209,509,218,125...8A Simple Example• Let’s start with a simple Ruby program# This is a ruby programx = 37y = x + 5print(y)print("\n")ruby1.rb:% ruby -w ruby1.rb42%9Language Basics# This is a ruby programx = 37y = x + 5print(y)print("\n")comments begin with #, go to end of linevariables need notbe declaredline break separatesexpressions(can also use “;”to be safe)no special main()function ormethod10Run Ruby, Run• There are three ways to run a Ruby program– ruby -w filename – execute script in filename• tip: the -w will cause Ruby to print a bit more if something bad happens– irb – launch interactive Ruby shell• can type in Ruby programs one line at a time, and watch as each line is executedirb(main):001:0> 3+4=> 7irb(main):002:0> print("hello\n")hello=> nil11Run Ruby, Run (cont’d)• Suppose you want to run a Ruby script as if it were an executable• ./filename # run program– The first line (“shebang”) tells the system where to find the program to interpret this text file– Must chmod u+x filename first• Or chmod a+x filename so everyone has exec permission– Warning: Not very portable• Depends on location /usr/local/bin/ruby#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -wprint("Hello, world!\n")12Explicit vs. Implicit Declarations• Java and C/C++ use explicit variable declarations– variables are named and typed before they are used• int x, y; x = 37; y = x + 5;• In Ruby, variables are implicitly declared– first use of a variable declares it and determines type• x = 37; y = x + 5;– x, y exist, will be integers13Tradeoffs?Explicit Declarations Implicit DeclarationsHigher overhead Lower overheadHelps prevent typos Easy to mistype variable nameForces programmer to document typesFigures out types of variables automatically14Methods in Rubydef sayN(message, n)i = 0while i < nputs messagei = i + 1endreturn iendx = sayN("hello", 3)puts(x)List parametersat definitionInvoke methodMay omit parenson callMethods are declared with def...end(Methods must begin with lowercase letter and be defined before they are called)15Method (and Function) Terminology• Formal parameters– The parameters used in the body of the method• message, n in our example• Actual parameters– The arguments passed in to the method at a call• "hello", 3 in our example– Note: Some people make this distinction with “parameters” versus “arguments,” but I can never remember which
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