From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T13:59:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Translating A Pattern of Data Into Equation, and ultimately code

Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Golf, anyone?  This "encodes" the full string:
> 
> s.gsub(/./){|c|((c[0]-?`)^($`.size+1)).chr}

returns a string of \000 here

irb(main):003:0> s = "abc"
=> "abc"
irb(main):004:0>  s.gsub(/./){|c|((c[0]-?`)^($`.size+1)).chr}
=> "\000\000\000"
irb(main):005:0> VERSION
=> "1.8.2"

martin