From: "Lorenzo E. Danielsson" <danielsson.lorenzo@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T22:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom of removing a particular character from a String?

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 11:56 +0900, David Masover wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 11:59:51 Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote:
> 
> > So:
> > str = "hello"
> > rem = str.clone
> > rem[2,1] = ""  # => "helo"
> > rem
> 
> For what it's worth, I've been using Object#tap (1.8.7 or higher) in 
> situations like these:
> 
> str = "hello"
> str.clone.tap { |rem|
>   rem[2,1] = ''
> }
> 
> Ordinarily, I wouldn't mention it, but you were asking for idiomatic things, 
> and I like that idiom.

Agreed, Object#tap looks very nice. Thanks for the info. 

Lorenzo