From: hubert@... (Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang)
Date: 2002-05-05T11:52:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding new method to Built-In class

hubert@cs.nyu.edu (Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang) wrote in message news:<98ba0902.0205041314.451d7ff3@posting.google.com>...
> David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.30.0205032346330.7490-100000@candle.superlink.net>...
> 
> > 
> > What you need to do is re-open the class String, and define a new
> > instance method:
> > 
> >   class String
> >     def new_method
> >       puts "give me a method!"
> >     end
> >   end
> > 

Second try.

It worked, don't ask me why. Also, sorry for the repeated posting.
Search google on the comp.lang.ruby group using 'variable regular expression'
will locate the earlier posting.

Hubert