From: ideal one <idealone5@...>
Date: 2011-10-18T03:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby functions to split numbers

Josh Cheek wrote in post #1026729:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM, ideal one <idealone5@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > keep in mind that a number with a leading zero makes ruby think the base
>> Hello there,
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>>
>>
> Strings have implemented on them the method "next" which, for numerical
> strings, seems to respect numerical iteration
>
> n = '0'
> 15.times do
>   n = n.next # => "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10",
> "11",
> "12", "13", "14", "15"
> end
>
>
> I'm not 100% sure that this is compatible across all versions of Ruby,
> you
> should definately have a test to make sure that it increments them as
> you
> expect. You should also consider what happens when you have something
> like
> "999", is it supposed to go to "1000", which would cause it to gain a
> digit?
> If not, you'll need to add special handling for that situation.

hi there...
      n.next works perfectly for me, I am using ruby 1.8.7 version.
i tried 999, 1239999 and also other variations i can think of, it works 
perfectly.

Cheers

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