From: WoodHacker <ramsayw1@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T03:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Copying strings

dup did the trick!    Thanks a million

bill

William James wrote:
> WoodHacker wrote:
> > I can't believe this hasn't been answered a thousand times, but I can't
> > seem to find the answer in the group archive.
> >
> > I am parsing a string into @text (i.e.  abc.def)     I want to save the
> > part before the dot into @firstpart .   For example:
> >
> >                @text << "a"
> >                @text << "b"
> >                @text << "c"   next char is "." so @firstpart = @text
> > then         @text << "."
> >                @text << "d", etc
> >
> > The problem is, this doesn't work.    @firstpart apparently is a
> > pointer to @text and continues to receive the characters.    Freezing
> > @firstpart doesn't work because then @text <<  produces a freeze error.
> >   There doesn't appear to be a "copy" method for string, so how do I do
> > this?
> >
> > Sometimes the obvious eludes us....
> >
> > Bill
>
> Your code sample doesn't run at all.  Here's one that does.
>
> text = ""
> text << "a"
> text << "b"
> text << "c"
> first_part = text.dup
> text << "."
> text << "d"
> 
> p first_part