From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T05:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: simple gsub method

Alle Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jack Smith ha scritto:
> I have simplified my method for searching test to the following:
>
> def replacer(a, b)
> x = "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their
> country"
> x.gsub(/#{a}/, b)
> puts x
> end
>
> puts "enter what to replace: "
> j = gets
> puts "enter replacer word: "
> h = gets
>
> replacer(j, h)
>
> Can someone help me determine why gsub can't match my "a" value?
>
> thanks

Strings returned by gets end in a newline, which doesn't exist in your string, 
so no match happens. To solve this, you can do

j = gets.chomp

and the same for h.

I hope this helps

Stefano