From: Chris <chris@...>
Date: 2002-04-16T06:02:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Pascal to Ruby

In article 
<Pine.LNX.4.30.0204151510070.10068-100000@candle.superlink.net>,
 David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:

> I was trying something along similar lines with Array.  I don't know if it's
> useful but I really like all the verbs in it:

Ruby poetry, anyone?  :-)

>   class Array
>     def insert(e,i)
>       m,n = self[0..i-1], self[i..-1]
>       replace m
>       push e
>       concat n
>       return self
>     end
>   end

Which then could be used for the original problem...

class String
   def insert(e, i)
      ((split "").insert e, i).join
   end
end