From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T21:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, 11:09:58 PM, Simon wrote:

>> I always feel unconfortable chaining (g)sub! since the result here *may*
>> be nil.
>>
> [snip]

> I am curious to when 'nil' may be returned?

Here you go:

irb(main):001:0> "xyz".gsub!(/a/, "b")
=> nil

Gavin