From: Matthew Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...>
Date: 2013-02-26T05:11:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby String directives

If you're just starting ruby I'd skip it for now. It doesn't have a lot of general use cases. Good luck with ruby!

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On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:55 PM, "Kumar R." <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Matt Mongeau wrote in post #1098987:
>> Kumar,
>> 
>> Use cases: A good use case is dealing with reading or writing specially
>> formatted files. For example:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format#Bitmap_file_header
>> 
>> I don't know about the use of the directives because I haven't had to
>> use them in the 8 years I've been doing Ruby.
> 
> Okay, so according to you, If I skip this topic no matters..right? I am 
> also facing too much trouble to understand this you know :(
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