From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-06-03T00:19:07+09:00
Subject: Re: PRE DETERMINE THE SIZE OF A STRING

PLEASE DO NOT SHOUT.

2010/6/2 kevid <alumsimportant@yahoo.ca>:

> please, is there a way to pre-determine the size (or capacity) of a
> string in ruby?
>
> i.e if a have a string "str" , i will set it to contain characters not
> more than 10.

No, strings in Ruby are unbounded.  If you need that functionality you
will have to create a class which implements this.

(Note: Ruby != C) :-)

Kind regards

robert


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