From: cg <chris_guenther@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T20:09:47+09:00
Subject: help with ruby range used as condition

Hi all,

having read "Programming Ruby: the pragmatic programmer"s Guide" I tried the
following "range"-example mentionned in the LOOPS section:

file = File.open("ordinal)
while file.gets
    print if /third/ .. /fifth/
end

With the following input file "ordinal" :
first
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
eighth
ninth


the result was :
first
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
eighth
ninth


and NOT :
third
fourth
fifth

as mentionned in the book !?
I tried it with ruby 1.8.1 (windows) and ruby 1.8.0 (Linux) with the same
unexpected result.

Am I doing something wrong here ? Is the range-class broke ?

Any help is greatly appreciated,
thanks
Christian