From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T05:02:08+09:00
Subject: Re: strings and ranges


<charlie.mills@milliman.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OF2A486F40.B193A772-ON88256DF1.00657564@milliman.com...
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> The following program doesn't execute as I would expect:
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> #!/usr/bin/ruby
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> stringy = "X"
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> 1.upto(10) do |i|
>   puts stringy
>   stringy.succ!
> end
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> "X".upto("AG") do |ss|
>   puts ss
> end
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> puts "'AB' > 'AA' = #{'AB' > 'AA'}"
> puts "'X' < 'AA' = #{'X' < 'AB'}"
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> # The code below gets around my problem...
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> stringy = "X"
> while true
>   puts stringy
>   stringy.succ!
>   break if stringy == "AH"
> end
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> # Is there a better way?

stringy = "X"
until stringy == "AH"
  puts stringy
  stringy.succ!
end

    robert