From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T02:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Peter Bailey wrote:
> 
>>> 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

Thanks, Paul. And, I've tried that:

   files = ARGV
   files.each do |f|
     f = f.to_s
     f.gsub!(/-/, "..")
     puts f
   end

I get a "can't modify frozen string" error message.

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