From: ed <ed@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T05:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:43:22 +0900
"Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@vernix.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:40:01AM +0900, ed wrote:
>  
> > Under most languages it pays to use a StringBuffer of sorts.
> > 
> > Is this true for Ruby, should one use a StringBuffer when appending
> > many strings?
> > 
> > If so, what is the string buffer called for Ruby?  
> 
> Strings are mutable in ruby so you just use the << method to append
> to a string. Don't, though, use + as that creates a new string.
> 
> 'Foo' << 'Bar', etc

Thanks, I will give that a go. My automatic knee-jerk reaction was to
use +=, as you pointed out, looks like some more syntax to adjust to
here!

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