From: bookie988@...
Date: 2008-05-06T22:40:09+09:00
Subject: trying to create an array with AA-ZZ for dutch postal codes

the array postcodes should be filled with strings starting looking
like

["AA",AB",AC"..."BA","BB","BC" to "ZZ"] 26*26 entries.

i've come up with the following to create it,

 postcodes = Array.new

 # create postal codes array

 W = String.new()
 X = String.new()

 (A..Z).each do |W| {

	 puts W
	 (A..Z).each do |X|	{
			 postcodes.push("#{W}#{X}")

			 }
		 }

 puts(postcodes)

this code produces

hpricot-test.rb:20: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting kDO
or '{' or '('
hpricot-test.rb:22: odd number list for Hash
hpricot-test.rb:25: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
hpricot-test.rb:57: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND

what am i doing wrong, is there an easier (rubier) way?