From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T02:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

On 29.11.2006 18:29, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 29.11.2006 18:02, Peter Bailey wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm going nuts with the simplest stuff here. I just want to take in
>> array data and make it into a range.
>>
>> Here's my test script, called test1.rb:
>>    files = [ARGV]
>>    files.to_s.gsub!(/\-/, "..")
>>    puts files
> 
> If you have multiple args, you can do
> 
> ARGV[0]..ARGV[1]
> 
> Otherwise you can do
> a, b = ARGV[0].split('-', 2)
> seq  = a..b

Even more onelinerish

Range.new(*ARGV[0].split('-', 2))

:-)

	robert