From: charlie.mills@...
Date: 2003-12-04T03:29:34+09:00
Subject: strings and ranges





The following program doesn't execute as I would expect:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

stringy = "X"

1.upto(10) do |i|
  puts stringy
  stringy.succ!
end

"X".upto("AG") do |ss|
  puts ss
end

puts "'AB' > 'AA' = #{'AB' > 'AA'}"
puts "'X' < 'AA' = #{'X' < 'AB'}"

# The code below gets around my problem...

stringy = "X"
while true
  puts stringy
  stringy.succ!
  break if stringy == "AH"
end

# Is there a better way?
# -Charlie
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