From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-10-16T23:49:18+09:00
Subject: Re: symbol confusions!!


On 16 Oct 2008, at 14:31, Jay Pangmi wrote:
>>
>
> Thanks Rob you made my life lot easier.. no I don't have that book I
> just have 'Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edt.' so, ruby is  
> just a
> small part here and hence internet has been my only source.
The first edition of the pickaxe is available online http://www.rubycentral.com/book/
A little out of date (it covers ruby 1.6) but there's plenty of useful  
stuff in there

There's also the humble little ruby book: http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/ 
  which is a free download
>
> Also I confusion about the use of slashes:
> %r{(\d{1,2}):(\d{1,2}):(\d{4})}
> whats the use of forward slash here
> and the '+' sign below:
> split(/[^0-9]+/)
/ can be used to delimit a regular expression. In a regular expression  
+ denotes "one or more times")

>
> Also I think I've seen the use of other words with '%' like %w but I

%r (alternative way of writing regular expressions), %x (like `), %q  
and %Q (like ' and " respectively) and %w are the common ones

Fred