From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T04:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with my gsub!

On 5/16/06, Guest <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
> Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> > On 5/16/06, Guest <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
> >> same gsub! line?
> >>
> >> Thanks again.
> >>
> >
> > The block form of gsub is one way to go about it:
> > counter = 0
> > content.gsub!(/^%%Page:.*([0-9]{1,5})$/)  do |match|
> >    counter += 1
> >    "%%Page: #{counter}"
> > end
> >
> > Whatever the block returns is used to replace the matched text.
>
> Cool. Thank you both very much. This is a very generous forum, I must
> say.

I wrote that reply prior to coffee, and you'll note that the |match|
block variable is unnecessary, since you're not doing anything with
it.
Also, I meant to say "the value of the block", not "what the block returns".
Other than that, it stands up to 6 hours of wakefulness. Heh.