From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2009-01-18T18:52:20+09:00
Subject: Re: string.tr bug?

borasque@borasque.com wrote:
> I found strange behaviour of string.tr:
>
> p "=+=/=".tr("+/=", ",-@")
> got ".,.-."
> expected "@,@-@"
>
> Is this bug in ruby?

It's not a bug. For tr ",-@" is the same as ",-./0123456789:;<=>?@". You have 
to escape the - to use it as a literal "-":
"=+=/=".tr("+/=", ',\-@') #=> "@,@-@"

HTH,
Sebastian
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