From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2000-12-17T04:42:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7465] Re: question: 'A'..'k'

"Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> wrote:
>
>
>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
>
I would assume that is because both Perl and Ruby use the same
string incrementing algorithm.  See

http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#succ

Cheers,
Ben
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