From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T04:24:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

Alle 19:04, gioved狸 30 novembre 2006, Peter Bailey ha scritto:
> > Why use gsub! at all?
> >
> > ARGV.each do |f|
> >   puts f.gsub(/-/, "..")
> > end
>
> Thanks. Yeh, I can do a "puts," but, I can't just change the silly hypen
> to 2 range dots. I get the frozen string error.

The point is to use puts, it is to use gsub instead of gsub!, which I see you 
used in a previous post. gsub! modifies the string it is called on, which you 
can't do with strings in ARGV, since they're frozen. gsub, instead, creates a 
new string, so it shouldn't complain about frozen string.