[#406419] Recursion with Hash — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

h = {a: {b: {c: 23}}}

14 messages 2013/04/01

[#406465] Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — "senthil k." <lists@...>

I was surprised to know that there is no community for Ruby Programming

12 messages 2013/04/03
[#406467] Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — Marc Heiler <lists@...> 2013/04/04

Thing is, some people do not use Facebook and never will.

[#406528] Role of bundler in creating and installing a gem — Jon Cairns <lists@...>

Hi fellow rubyists,

11 messages 2013/04/05

[#406555] How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — peteV <pete0verse@...>

Hi Ruby people,

18 messages 2013/04/05
[#406558] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...> 2013/04/05

Subject: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is?

[#406560] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Carlo E. Prelz wrote in post #1104616:

[#406562] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...> 2013/04/05

Actually its not wrong. What it does is explicitly state which ruby

[#406563] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, D. Deryl Downey wrote:

[#406564] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Matt Lawrence wrote in post #1104625:

[#406566] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Hans Mackowiak wrote:

[#406570] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matthew Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/04/05

I'm interested in the issue with using env, but I find you explanation a but=

[#406600] Mapping string data ptr to buffer in ffi — se gm <lists@...>

I'm trying to implement some "shared memory" in Ruby, but I'm not sure

20 messages 2013/04/08

[#406683] confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I went to there - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Struct.html but the

29 messages 2013/04/11
[#406694] Re: confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/04/11

Why does every time the has value getting changed,while the instance

[#406762] Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Here is the documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/nokogiri/frames

19 messages 2013/04/14
[#406764] Re: Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...> 2013/04/14

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#406874] Input: sentence Modify: words Output: modified sentence — Philip Parker <lists@...>

I am new to Ruby. This is a programming interview question to use any

11 messages 2013/04/19

[#406912] Tap method : good or bad practice ? — Sébastien Durand <lists@...>

Hi all !

18 messages 2013/04/21

[#406936] BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY — shaik farooq <lists@...>

HEY as we know that the object conatins the instance variables that are

22 messages 2013/04/22

[#406966] copying files syntax with FileUtils.rb (grr.) — Thomas Luedeke <lists@...>

In my Ruby scripting, there is probably no greater and chronic source of

10 messages 2013/04/23

[#406969] what is the $- magic global? — Matthew Kerwin <lists@...>

I've been searching for the past hour or so, including manually stepping

13 messages 2013/04/24

[#407059] New Rexx like data structure — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>

This is just something that I have been playing with for some time but I

11 messages 2013/04/29

[#407070] writing lines to a file — peteV <pete0verse@...>

I have a text file with on every line a magic card number and such info

13 messages 2013/04/29

Re: String index produces unanticipated result

From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2013-04-17 20:37:14 UTC
List: ruby-talk #406838
On 04/18/2013 08:24 AM, Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> I have the following string I am pulling from a file (asterisks used to
> show boundaries of line, and are not actually there:
>
> *    9    3    3    0    0*
>
> I want to test to see if a "9" is in the first five columns of the line.
> Typically it is in column five, but not necessarily.
>
> I tried the "puts line.strip[0]" command, which returns "57".  Huh?
> Where did "57" come from??  Same thing happens with strip!.
>
> Why isn't this simply removing the leading white space and returning
> "9"??  I don't understand how to accomplish my task now.
>
> I tried the online irb, and it gave me "9", like I'd have expected.
>
The 57 you are getting is the ordinal of the string "9";

irb(main):001:0> "9".ord
=> 57

In Ruby 1.8 I believe an index into a string gave you this value, rather 
than the character at that index. In Ruby 1.9 it was changed to give you 
what you are expecting here;

irb(main):002:0> "9"[0]
=> "9"

Something like this would probably work for you in both flavours of Ruby;

irb(main):003:0> foo.split[0,5].include? "9"
=> true

Split the string, take a slice of the first five values (columns), and 
check for membership.

Sam


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