From: Andy Dbest <dbestandy@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T00:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Search File Contents

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2008, Andy Dbest wrote:

> I've tried it and it works even without the assignment. Are you sure 
> there
> isn't any trailing space afer 1. in the method argument? Using puts as I
> suggested in my first post wouldn't have shown that. You can try 
> examining the
> argument with p, instead of puts, which displays the string with special
> characters escaped and surrounded by quotes. If everything is correct, 
> the
> line
> 
> p week_num
> 
> should output
> 
> "1."
> 
> If there are trailing spaces, you'll see something like
> 
> "1.  "
> 
> Stefano

Thanks Stefano,

the p week_num line did the trick, i noticed that there was a leading 
space. I was taking the input from an FXRuby text control, in which i 
introduced a space.

Have fixed it now.

Cheers and thanks.
Andy
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