From: Sam Haskins <sam.haskins@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T08:33:25+09:00
Subject: Re: what is %w

What sort of situations is that syntax useful in?

On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:39 PM, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Joel Saltzmanjoelh wrote:
>
>> What is the %w used for in ruby?
>
> To create an array of strings:
>
>  %w{ one two three }   # same as ["one", "two", "three"]
>
> You can use other delimiters, like []. I'm not sure why I've
> gravitated toward curly braces for this.
>
>
> David
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