From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T23:50:23+09:00
Subject: Re: scan regular expression and strings

STEPHEN BECKER I V wrote:

>tr="meet"
>tr.scan(/(.)\1/) {|x| x=x+'x'}   
>print tr
>
>What I want it to do is find doubles like the ee in meet and put an x
>between them. Am i doing this wrong because x is part of an array now?
>
>  
>
Your change to x is local to the block, because x is a new string object 
on each iteration, that is not connected to tr.
You can achieve your aim like this:

Warning: Untested, but the idea should be clear.

x = "meet meep meep"
y = x.gsub(/(.)(\1)/, '\1x\2')

Observe that this does not change the string x, but the result will be 
allocated in y.
If you want to change the original string use gsub!.

Regards,

Brian