From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T21:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:37:24 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> 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
>

Bommer, I feel sleepy :-)

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Simon Strandgaard