From: John Wells <lists@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T06:00:52+09:00
Subject: Re: prob only with ruby

On Jan 8, 2008 3:10 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> i am using ole automation to drive some of my processes. the following
> code would run properly in other languages like vbscript. but it fails
> only in ruby
> application = WIN32OLE.new("Broker.Application")
>
>
>   analysis=application.analysis()
>
> analysis.Filter(0, "market") = 3  # use nasdaq only          << ruby
> does not allow setting values like this. it errors syntax error,
> unexpected '=', expecting $end. however this assignmetn is valid in
> vbscript for the same object. is there any other way of doing it.

I'm not a vbscript guy, but did you try:

myvar = analysis.Filter(0, "market")
myvar = 3

?