From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-03-09T04:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: duplicating characters in a string

On Mar 6, 10:12 am, Adam Akhtar <adamtempor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If i have a string "abc" and want to make it like this "aabbcc", how do
> i go about it?
>
> I thought convert it into an array and then use string.map{|x| x << x}
>
> though i havnt tested that yet. Is there a better way or a string method
> that saves me from having to convert it into an array?
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

s = "aabbcc"
    ==>"aabbcc"
s = s.squeeze
    ==>"abc"
s = s.unsqueeze
    ==>"aabbcc"

Yes, that should have been saved till April 1.