From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T02:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

Peter Bailey wrote:

> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> On 11/29/06, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> I get:
>>>    im123000-im123006
>>>
>>> I want:
>>>    im123000..im123006
>> 
>> 
>> puts ARGV.to_s.gsub(/\-/, '..')
> 
> Yup. That certainly works, too. And, that's really simple.

And it is wrong. "ARGV.to_s" collapses an array into a single string. If you
provide more than one input argument, you will see the problem.

> I guess I 
> don't see why making "files = ARGV" throws me off so. I'm just trying to
> find the right mind-set for all this.

The "right" mind-set is to process the array one element at a time:

ARGV.each do |arg|
  # do something here
end

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