From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T16:58:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining the common prefix for several strings

On Behalf Of Todd Burch:
# Holy Cow!   You guys are geniuses!   Y'all are using these 
# methods like. I've never seen or even thought of using them before.

don’t count me pls. i'm not holy nor genius, (possibly a cow :) but just a nuby learning ruby fr the marvelous ruby community (thanks to matz, nobu, guydecoux, mauricio, dblack, ...ml-list.size ).

ff is another example (of my nubiness). it shows niftiness of bang methods, chains, and the underutilized all?,

CC:\family\ruby>cat test.rb
list = %w(itemone itemtwo item222 item0033 item11 itexthis itemthisandthat itemt
hose)

min = list.sort!{|a,b| a.size <=> b.size}.first
break if list.all?{|a| a =~ /^#{min}/} while min.chop!

puts min
C:\family\ruby>ruby test.rb
ite

C:\family\ruby>

i luv my family. i luv ruby :)

kind regards -botp