From: Brad Carson <brad.carson@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T02:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: keep getting an error saying that this array value is nil, however it is not nil

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If i equals the length of the array, elemkeysraw[i] would be out of range
and return a nil value and trigger the error, no?
elemkeysraw[i-1] gets the last value in array.
Not sure why it would be returning a value earlier though.


On 7/6/07, shadow cipher <onebitcipher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> elemkeysraw = str.split(/=(?!>)/)
> i = elemkeysraw.length
> scr.printw("This is the value of hashargs is #{hashargs} and it's class is
> #{hashargs.class} and elemkeysraw[i] is #{elemkeysraw[i]}
> elemkeysraw[i].split(/=>/)[0] is #{elemkeysraw[i].split(/=>/)[0]}")
>
> This is the chunk of code,, and the elemkeysraw[i].split(/=>/)[0] causes
> an
> error;
>
> private method `split' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
>
> However elemkeysraw[i] provides a value.  What's the deal with this?  I'm
> guessing it is because the fact that "i" is not evaluated until runtime,
> but
> why does the element reference work, but not when attempting to use a
> string
> method on the value that is contained there?
>

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