From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T23:07:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Succ distance between two strings

Hi --

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> 
> Is there an efficient way to calculate the "succ distance" between two strings 
> (without iterating over each succession)? Examples:
> 
>   'a'..'a'    0
>   'a'..'b'    1
>   'a'..'z'    25
>   'a'..'aa'   26

'a'...'aa'.to_a.size   # would be one way


David

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David A. Black
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