From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T00:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Favorite idiom for "keep doing this until it returns nil/false"


On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Phrogz wrote:

> I want to keep running gsub! on a string until it returns nil. How do
> you prefer to do this?
>
> true while str.gsub!( ... )
>
> while str.gsub!( ... ); end
>
> begin
>   done = !str.gsub!( ... )
> end until done
>
> begin
>   made_replacement = str.gsub!( ... )
> end while made_replacement
>
> ...some other way?

loop{ str.gsub!(re, repl) or break }

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