From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T21:05:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby equiv of perl pos

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:20:10 +0900, you wrote:

>> new_string = ""
>> string.scan(/\0/) do |m|
>>    new_string = "%o" % $~.offset(0).first
>> end

>That should work okay 

i noticed that all the ruby solutions presented were longer than the
original perl code. i found the perl code more readable... which is
unusual for most perl-ruby comparisons :)

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