From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T03:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: case statement puzzle

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM, James Coglan<jcoglan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> What about:
>
> x='1'
> case
> when x =='0'
>  puts '0'
> when '1'..'5'
>  puts '1'
> end

Almost, that second when will ALWAYS match.

Better to use the form of case which takes a value

%w{0 1 2}.each do |x|
  case x
  when '0'
    puts "it's like nothing, man!"
  when '1'..'5'
    puts "it's in there"
  end
end

it's like nothing, man!
it's in there
it's in there




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