From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2005-09-03T08:18:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array

Jacob Fugal wrote:

> [...]
> What's the second to last line for?
> 
>   l = (s1[i] == 10) ? l+1 : l
> 
> That will always return false (since s1[i] is always a string, and
> string/integer comparison is always false), so your line count will
> always be 1.

s1[i] is in fact never a string:

str[fixnum] => fixnum or nil
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001328

so it is for counting newline chars. It could be written shorter

(s1[i] == 10) ? l+1 : l

without the assignment.

> Jacob Fugal

cheers

Simon