From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T10:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> What you has written is the same as (notice the '!' suffix)
> 
>   result.sub!(/\{/,'[')
>   result.sub!(/\}/,']')
> 
> Above can be chained, so it becomes
> 
>   result.sub!(/\{/,'[').sub!(/\}/,']')
>  
> 
>>Any suggestions are more than welcome.
> 
> 
> Try 'gsub'
> 
>   result.gsub!(/\{/,'[').gsub!(/\}/,']')
> 

Very dangerous.  If one of the ! methods doesn't actually do 
anything, it returns nil, which responds poorly to subsequent ! 
methods.


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