From: Jack Smith <js@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T05:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: simple gsub method

I take that back Stefano....you solved it for me!
I forgot to add the x.gsub! ....when I did, my script is working.

thanks a REAL lot for helping me with this!

j


Jack Smith wrote:
> It does help Stefano as I had forgotton about \n so thanks for that but 
> my script still does not match on my "a" value even with the chomp 
> method added.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Stefano Crocco wrote:
>> Alle Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jack Smith ha scritto:
>>> 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

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