From: pixelnate <pixelnate@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T04:55:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn to Program - Solutions?

William James wrote:
>
> toc = ['Table of Contents', 'Chapter 1', 'Getting Started',
>         'page 1', 'Chapter 2', 'Numbers', 'page 9',
>         'Chapter 3', 'Letter', 'page 13']
>
> wd = 60
>
> puts toc.shift.center(wd)
>
> toc.inject([]){ |a,e|
>   a << e
>   if 3 == a.size
>     a[0,2] = a[0,2].join( ": " ) + " "
>     a.push  " " + a.pop[ /\d+/ ]
>     print a.first, "." * (wd - a.first.size - a.last.size),
>       a.last, "\n"
>     a.clear
>   end
>   a
> }
>
>   
Thank you. I think you have some things in there that hadn't yet been 
mentioned in the book, but it gives me something to study.

pixelNate