From: Gani Ruthellen <ganietse@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T03:04:41+09:00
Subject: Re: array.each puzzle from new ruby-er

> Know that this is actually rebinding the local variable y to point to a
> new object, not modifying the old object. If your goal was to modify the
> array "lines", you should change "lines.each" to "lines.map" and make
> sure you end the block with a statement that returns the modified y.
> 
> perhaps:
> lines.map do |y|
>    y = y.chomp("\x15").chomp
>    y = "<someTag>" + y + "</someTag>"     if y =~ /^\*\*\*/
>    y
> end
> 
> 
> Dan

Sorry, actually doing each_with_index do |y,ind| (etc) and specifically 
setting lines[ind] = y
but my original question remains: how do i make the "<tag>" + y leave 
off the \n so the output is
<tag>text of y
Thanks again
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