From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-06-23T00:49:15+09:00
Subject: Re: String#decorate

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:35:32 +0000, Martin DeMello wrote:

> Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 06:46:00 +0000, Martin DeMello wrote:
>> 
>>> When chaining methods, it'd be neat to have something that was passed
>>> in the string and returned a 'decorated' version, e.g.
>>> 
>>> pp = ary.join(",").decorate {|s| "[#{s}]"}
[snip]
> 
> No, I want to decorate the *string*, as a prettier way of doing
> 
> pp = "[" << ary.join(",") << "]"

OK.. My assumption was wrong.. I couldn't see which kind of
output you wanted.. I understand now.


>> It works a bit like 'collect' or 'map'
>> 
>> how about
>> 
>> title.capitalize.map {|t| "\t -- #{author[t]},\"#{t}\""}
> 
> No, String#each iterates over its characters.

If I do #map on a string.. then it looks like this:
> irb
irb(main):001:0> x = "abcdef"
=> "abcdef"
irb(main):002:0> puts x.map {|y| "<#{y}>"}
<abcdef>
=> nil
irb(main):003:0>


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Simon Strandgaard