From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-09-21T23:39:04+09:00
Subject: gsub not working. Ruby thinks I'm in an array?

I've chunked up a huge text file into arrays of discrete text groups. I
want to go into each of those text groups and convert a bunch of stuff.
I've proved that I've got my array OK, and, I've proved that I can do a
"put" of any of the discrete text groups. But, in my first gsub! to
convert stuff in these text groups, Ruby is complaining that I'm doing a
gsub! in an array. I'm getting the following error message:

Exception: private method `gsub' called for #<Array:0x2e40910>

Here's the lines where this starts:
  registries = []
  registries = xmlfile.scan(/<registration>(.*? )<\/registration>/im)
  #puts registries[100]

  registries.sort!
  registries.each do |registry|
    registry.gsub!(/<\/*registrationList>/, "")

Can someone help me understand what's going on here?

Thanks,
Peter
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