From: Patrick Gundlach <clr9.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T01:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: increasing counter whithin loop?


> Maybe I missed something.

You missed to read my mind; my explanation was very unclear. I wanted
to have something like

"if two 'b' are consecutive, output 'double b' and continue with the
element behind the second".

'a' 'b' 'b' 'c' 'b' 'd'

->

'a' 'double b' 'c' 'b' 'd'

This is why I thought

for i in sequence 
  if sequence[i]=='b' and sequence[i+1]=='b'
   output 'double b'
   # increase i, so that the second 'b' won't be seen by the for-loop
   # but ruby won't let me!?
   # i += 1 does nothing
  else
   output sequence[i]
  end
end

would work, but I can't change the i in the for-loop. This is a pity!

Patrick