From: snacktime Date: 2006-08-13T04:13:48+09:00 Subject: Re: perl tr and ruby String#tr On 8/12/06, Jan Svitok wrote: > On 8/12/06, snacktime wrote: > > > even_bits = "\0" > > odd_bits = "\200" > > 8.times do > > even_bits << odd_bits > > odd_bits = even_bits > > odd_bits.tr!("\0\200","\200\0") > > end > > > > print odd_bits.unpack('c*') > > - odd_bits = even_bits > + odd_bits = even_bits.clone > > = assigns reference to the object in this case > > Ok now I feel stupid:) Thanks for pointing that out.