From: Steve Peters <stmpeters@...>
Date: 2002-09-19T08:38:06+09:00
Subject: Re: A newbie question for using sort

Florian Frank wrote:
> Am 2002-09-18 12:09:04 +0900 schrieb Steve Peters:
> 
>> If anyone can let me know what I'm doing wrong, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> 
> arr.sort doesn't change the order of arr but returns a new array with
> arr's elements which happens to be sorted. If you want to sort arr
> itself you have to use arr.sort! instead of arr.sort. You could also
> use the return value of arr.sort:
> 
> for atom in arr.sort
>   print atom, "\n"
> end
> 
Thanks, this helped!