From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2011-10-31T23:14:06+09:00
Subject: Re: "A" and "an" articles in front of words

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 22:23, jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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

In 1.9 yes... but many people are still on 1.8, which will give a
number instead.  Gotta use string[0:0] instead.  :-(

>  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...

If she's having a hard time extracting a character from a string, I
don't think it's sporting to hit her with regexps quite yet.  ;-)

-Dave

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