From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T06:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple problem with Regular Expression

El Martes, 21 de Julio de 2009, Max Norman escribió:
> > PS: Just valid for 1.9 due to the usage of "fruit[0]".
>
> Unfortunately I'm not using 1.9, but I would appreciate any explanation
> of this syntax as well. Are you referring to the word 'fruit' as an
> array, then specifying the first element of that array?

'fruit' is not an array, but a string.
However, 'fruit'[0] returns the first character of the string (note that in 
Ruby a character is also a string).


> How would one code this in 1.8?

fruit[/^(.)/]


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