From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-06-22T06:35:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for the Ruby way for the following

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:17:25 +0900, Bil Kleb wrote:
> Currently I am using the following rather ugly bit of Ruby code to
> calculate the maximum length of the file names strings (plus one)
> in the array file_list,
> 
> fn_width = 0
> file_list.each{ |fn| fn_width = [File.basename(fn).size,
> fn_width].max }
> fn_width += 1
> 
> Can someone offer a more elegant method?  My brain seems to have
> shutdown on this problem today...

Why not use #inject()? It seems like it would be the natural choice
in this case.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.06.21 at 17.34.44