From: Peter Vanbroekhoven <calamitas@...>
Date: 2005-09-02T00:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: palindrome finder


On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Josh Charles wrote:

> I've been working on this piece of code and it's starting to drive me
> crazy.  I think it's a problem with reference vs value type, but I'm
> not sure.  I'm just writing a simple program to process a list of
> words and print out all the palindromes (words that read the same
> forward and backward)
>
> Here is my code:
>
> file = File.open("testdict.txt", "r" ) do |file|
>    file.each_line("\n") do |line|
>        #filelist.push( line )
>        line.downcase!

          line.chomp!

>        if (line == line.reverse)
>            puts line
>        end
>    end
> end

The newline is included and is removed by chomp.

Peter