From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-08-15T05:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#abbrev depreciated?

Jason Lillywhite wrote:
> If you look at the core ruby doc, it says Array#abbrev will let you do
> this:
> 
> %w{ car cone }.abbrev   #=> { "ca" => "car", "car" => "car",
>                                 "co" => "cone", "con" => cone",
>                                 "cone" => "cone" }
> 
> But if I try this in IRB, I get:
> 
> irb(main):002:0> %w{ car cone }.abbrev
> NoMethodError: undefined method `abbrev' for ["car", "cone"]:Array
>         from (irb):2
> 
> Is Array#abbrev depreciated?

require 'abbrev' # it's in the stdlib, not core

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