From: Satish Talim <satish.talim@...>
Date: 2008-01-21T22:06:53+09:00
Subject: Re: String count method in 1.9

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Damn silly of me, to miss out the , between the two parameters. I'll
attribute it to my high fever but still can't leave aside Ruby :)

On Jan 21, 2008 5:19 PM, Satish Talim <satish.talim@gmail.com> wrote:

> As per the Ruby documentation, string.count(character_set1,character_set2)first takes the intersection of
> character_set1 and character_set2 and then counts the number of times each
> character from the resulting intersection occurs in string.
>
> The program:
> a = 'hooooooooooll'
> puts a.count "lo" "o"
>
> displays 10 in irb but displays 12 in Ruby 1.9. Why?
>

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