From: Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T21:22:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby documentation typo

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Hi David,
 Thanks for the information. Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed=
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that page yet so...
 Best Regards,
Behrang S.

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> Hi --
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> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
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> > Hi all
> >
> > I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it
> > would be OK to mention it here.
> >
> > The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page:
> >
> > ---
> > Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the
> > quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what
> > we want.
> >
> > a =3D %w{ ant bee cat dog elk }
> > ---
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> > I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog
> > talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes.
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> Actually %w can take just about any delimiter:
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> %w!a b c!
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> etc. So you can definitely use {}.
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> David
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> --
> David A. Black
> dblack@wobblini.net
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Behrang Saeedzadeh
http://www.jroller.com/page/behrangsa

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