From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T06:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple problem with Regular Expression

El Martes, 21 de Julio de 2009, Max Norman escribió:
> > fruit = gets.chomp.downcase
> >
> > case fruit
> > when "orange"
> >   color = "orange"
> > when "apple"
> >   color = "green"
> > when "banana"
> >   color = "yellow"
> > else
> >   color = "unknown"
> > end
> >
> > if %w{a e i o u}.include?(fruit[0])
> >   puts "An #{fruit} is #{color}."
> > else
> >   puts "A #{fruit} is #{color}."
> > end
>
> Thanks for this. I've just come across a few of these concepts, like
> literal arrays, denoted by %w{}. Could you explain your usage of the
> literal array?

Easy:

irb> my_array = %w{a e i o u}
["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]

irb> my_array
["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]



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