From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-06T08:54:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30314] Re: Ruby article on Freshmeat

In article <3C3756E8.1D7334D3@scnsoft.com>,
Yuri Leikind  <YuriLeikind@scnsoft.com> wrote:
>Stefan Scholl wrote:
>> 
>> http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/358/
>
>
>Article part:
>================
>string = " this is a string " 
>
>You can apply the strip! method to it, like this: 
>
>   string.strip!  ==>  "this is a string"
>
>
>  Methods which have a "!" at the end are destructive; they change the
>object they are applied to. 
>
> Now, let's capitalize our string: 
>
>   string.capitalize!  ==>  "This is a string"
>===================
>
>Actually, expressions like string.capitalize! are
>evaluated to nil:
>
>string.capitalize!  ==>  nil
>
>If it were
>
>       string.capitalize
>
>then we could add 
>
>      ==>  "This is a string"
>
>A bit confusing ...
>
>
>Just my two roubles.

Previet,

you're right, I guess if you do it in irb it'll be confusing.  I was just 
trying to indicate what was in the string...

And then there's the part about more books being released early next year 
- I wrote that in November.  It took a while to make it to Freshmeat.net.

Phil