From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-03-15T14:37:13-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01858] Re: Another question from a newbie

    >Why does this snippet fail?
    >
    >      class String
    >         def String.comment (str)
    >            str =~ /^(#| *$)/
    >         end
    >      end

Why are you making comment a class method?
It seems to work fine as an instance method:

    class String
     def comment
        self =~ /^(#| *$)/
     end
    end

    File.open("xxx") { |conf|
     conf.readlines.each { |line|
        next if line.comment


Regards,

/\ndy

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