From: CParticle <cparticle@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T06:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Help ruby started acting strange

Thanks I was not aware that scan worked that way I'll have to adjust to
take account of scan beharvior.

I did know that I could assign first and last in one line I was just
was being lazy about looking up the syntax(I'm still new to ruby).

I'll keep that in mind regarding the naming convention.

Regarding my issue the fourth line is still puzzling to me I would
think that even with my code the way it is firstName and lastName at
least should come out as stings and so the last line the searchUser
assignment shouldn't need to have lastName.to_s can anyone shed some
light as to why this would be?

displayName = current_message.Body.scan(/^Employee Name -+> (.*)\./)
firstName = displayName.to_s.split(", ")[1]
lastName = displayName.to_s.split(", ")[0]
searchUser = lastName.to_s.downcase[0,3] + firstName.to_s.downcase[0,1]
+ "*" 


CParticle