From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2000-12-17T03:33:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7454] RE:  question: 'A'..'k'


It looks like ranges can't "jump" from uppercase to lowercase.
So it gets all the way to Z and hits the brick wall.
perl has the same "feature":
for("A".."k") { 
  print "$_ "; 
} 
=> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


-joe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard [mailto:matju@cam.org]
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 10:17 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:7449] question: 'A'..'k'
> 
> 
> 
> k=0; ("A".."k").each{|x|k+=1}; k
> 
> 
> I expected 11, I got 26. Why is that?
> 
> matju
> 
>