From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2009-11-20T06:08:08+09:00
Subject: Re: For Loop

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Mike Stok <mike@stok.ca> wrote:

> > For Ruby, I tried -
> >
> > for group in Account File",
> >              "Bank File",
> >              "Study Case",
> >              "Overall Status"
> > do
> >              (scp groups user@server1:/tmp)
> > end
> >
> > Of course, I get syntax errors everywhere.  I am not sure how to use a
> > for loop in this case.  Any input?
>
> [ "Account File", "Bank File", "Study Case", "Overall Status" ].each do
> |group|
>  puts "processing #{group}"
> end
>


Some alternative syntax that might be more comfortable:

for group in [ "Account File", "Bank File", "Study Case", "Overall Status" ]
  puts "processing #{group}"
end

for group in "Account File, Bank File, Study Case, Overall Status".split(",
")
  puts "processing #{group}"
end

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