From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T00:00:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a method for incrementing string names?!?

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Why not just create an array called name and access with the numbers?

irb(main):003:0> name << 'charlie' << 'moir' << 'bowman'
=> ["charlie", "moir", "bowman"]
irb(main):006:0> puts name[0]
charlie
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> puts name[1]
moir
=> nil
irb(main):008:0> puts name[2]
bowman
=> nil


Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:54 +0900, Pedro C担rte-Real wrote:

> On 5/12/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> > irb(main):001:0> s = "aaa1"
> > => "aaa1"
> > irb(main):002:0> s = s.succ
> > => "aaa2"
> > irb(main):003:0> s = s.succ
> > => "aaa3"
> 
> But don't forget:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> 'aa9'.succ
> => "ab0"
> 
> So it won't do what's needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pedro.
> 
> 



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