From: Human Dunnil <h.dunnil@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T00:36:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a method for incrementing string names?!?

My friends ask me why you love Ruby! that's becasue of you guys. ; ) Thanks

On 5/12/06, Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/12/06, C Erler <erlercw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's a method to do it :
> >
> > def inc name
> >   parts = name.scan(/^(.*\D)(\d+)$/).first
> >   if parts.nil?
> >     "#{name}1"
> >   else
> >     "#{parts.first}#{parts.last.to_i + 1}"
> >   end
> > end
> >
>
> Quite right.  My regex should have been anchored:
>
> /\A(\d*)(.*)/
>
>
> --
> Lou.
>
>