From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T05:52:47+09:00
Subject: Re: dot-equals method?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com] 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I keep finding myself wanting to write things like this:
> >
> >   string.=reverse
> >   input.=split /\s*/
> >
> > instead of this:
> >
> >   string = string.reverse
> >   input = input.split /\s*/
> 
> I understand. But in these two cases I guess
> you'd want reverse! and split! instead.

I don't think there's a split! method since that would cause a type change
on the receiver (string to array).

However, if you happen to know the exact format of the string, unpack is
faster than split:

S = 'hello'
S = S.unpack("AAAAA")

Regards,

Dan