From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T05:55:34+09:00
Subject: Re: {newb} Each statements

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:13:30 +0900, STEPHEN BECKER I V
<becker004@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do each statements change the thing that they are using?
> data is a a string.

no, but map! and collect! do, but they only work on Arrays, not
Strings.  So first, you'll need to split the string into an Array...
for strings, each_byte will do that.

srand(5000)
ndata = ''
a = data.size-1
data.each_byte  do |c|
  ndata += (((c-97)+rand(10))%26).chr
end

If you're looking for a random human readable string, you'll want to
bump it back up by 96 as you go along...
  ndata += (((c-97)+rand(10))%26 + 97).chr


-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)