From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T07:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Appending to an array

 --- Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote: 

> Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
> >vthread << File.new(pathname,
> >"r").readlines().to_s().grep(/^foobar/).uniq()
> >  
> >
> 
> The << operator for array only appends the single object given to the 
> end of the array--it does not concatenate one array onto another.  What 
> you probably want is the += operator:
> 
>   vthread += File.new(...).grep(/^foobar/).uniq()
> 
> (Assuming, of course, that vthread is an array.)

James,

Many thanks for that!! True genius. Solved it completely. I wonder why I
never thought of it myself :)

kudos_Points++;

:)

-- Thomas Adam

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