From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T05:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Peter Bailey wrote:
> 
> / ...
> 
>> I ran it again, too, and, I still get the "can't modify frozen string
>> (TypeError)" error.
> 
> Well, rather than try to sort this out, why not make a copy of the 
> string
> and solve it that way?
> 
> Rather than:
> 
> f.gsub!(/-/, "..")
> 
> Do this:
> 
> f = f.gsub(/-/, "..")
> 
> BTW there is no purpose to this copy:
> 
>>>>    files = ARGV
>>>>    files.each do |f|
> 
> Just do:
> 
> ARGV.each do |f|


That did it! Here's what I did. I need to not just turn the hyphen into 
range dots, but, I also need to get rid of any commas and stuff between 
input entries.
ARGV.each do |f|
  f = f.gsub(/-/, "..")
  f = f.gsub(/,/, "")
  puts f
end

So, here's my input:
  test1.rb im145000-145004, im145006, im145009

I get:
  im45000..im145004
  im145006
  im145009

Phew. Thanks, everyone. Now I'm going to work on breaking down that 
range into its elements, but, I think I can handle that.

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