From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-03T00:12:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ranges and Enumerable problems

2008/7/2 Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com>:
> Okay so when I play with "!".."~" wrong things happen.
>
> ("!".."~").include?("W")
> true
>
> ("!.."~").include?(" ")
> false
>
> so far so good, however.
>
> ("!".."~").each do |c|
> puts c
> end
>
> !
> "
> #
> $
> %
> &
> '
> (
> )
> *
> +
> ,
> -
> .
> /
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> => "!".."~"
>
> This is wrong!
>
> ("!".."~").last
> => "~"
>
> This is also right.
>
> It looks to me like a problem with the Enumerable mixin but I guess the
> question is why?

Note this

irb(main):003:0> "9".succ
=> "10"

Try this instead:

(?!..?~).each {|c| p c.chr}

irb(main):008:0> (?!..?~).include? ?\
=> false


Kind regards

robert



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