From: John W Higgins Date: 2009-06-19T09:03:44+09:00 Subject: Re: new-b question --000e0cd4821418904c046ca82565 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM, David Newton wrote: > ... > Hi John, > > thanks for your patience. > > In terms of the main objective, then no, they do not have to be there - > but I think it would help my understanding of what is happening if they > were there.. > Ok then lets remove some of the ruby tricks and just make the code work because as most programmers do I've pushed you into the deep end and you are looking to keep your feet solidly on the bottom of the pool while still being able to breathe :) Lets try this http://gist.github.com/132285 - a little more output at each step. It's different then the first shot I took at it but it's also much easier to digest each piece and see what it's doing. John --000e0cd4821418904c046ca82565--