From: Vincent Foley <gnuvince@...>
Date: 2001-11-06T02:21:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24404] Help with OO

Hi, I'm a bit new to OO programming and I would need help.  I made a
small (and useless) program to convert a string to l33t speech.  But the
method I used, I think it's a bit too imperative (we're in a OO
language, right?).  So here's the code, and I'll explain what I want to
do after the code:

[code]

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

def l33t(message)
  message.tr!('eE', '3')
  message.tr!('aA', '4')
  message.tr!('lL', '1')
  message.tr!('oO', '0')
  message.tr!('tT', '7')
  message.tr!('sS', '$5')

  return message
end

print "Enter string to translate: "
x = STDIN.gets.chomp!
puts l33t(x)

[/code]

look at the last line, how would I do to do 'puts x.l33t'?

Thanks,

    Vince

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