From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-05-17T02:15:50+09:00
Subject: Re: determining common characters from start of two strings?

From: "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net>
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Brian Schr�der wrote:
>
> > class String
> >  def lcommon(other)
> >    0.upto(length) do | i | return i if other[i] != self[i] end
> >    length
> >  end
> > end
>
> You can also use the return value of times to do this:
>
>    class String
>      def lcommon(other)
>        length.times do |i| return i if other[i] != self[i] end
>      end
>    end

Cool solutions, guys - thanks !


Regards,

Bill