From: jake kaiden <jakekaiden@...>
Date: 2011-10-31T11:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: "A" and "an" articles in front of words

hi Faith,

  one way to approach this could be...

  check out the #each method that works with Arrays - 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.2/Array.html#method-i-each

  this will cycle through each entry in an array, and in your case give 
you back a string...

  ruby Strings have an easy way of finding the first letter, the `[]` 
method...  you can do something like this:

  string = "hi there"
  puts string[0]

  => h

  http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.2/String.html#method-i-5B-5D

  you could use a regular expression 
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.2/Regexp.html) to determine whether to 
put an "a" or an "an" before each word based on its first letter...

  maybe you could write a method called `indefinite_article(string)` 
which would take a string as an argument, check its first letter, and 
then decide what article to use.  you could then call this method from 
within the Array#each  block...

  if you get a bit of code together, post it here and folks will be 
happy to help out more...

  - j

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