From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T06:39:26+09:00
Subject: keep changes in string outside of scope?

The  code below is supposed to scan through a string and put a ',' 
before all zip codes.  The code properly detects the zip codes and makes 
the change in x but the change is never reflected in thestring.  How can 
I get these changes to exist outside of x's scope?

thestring.each do |x|
    if  x =~ /\d{5}/
      puts "match"
      x[-6] = ","
      puts x
  end
end


Thank you,
Matthew Margolis