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Re: newbie question re: variable assignment

Simon.Mullis

4/13/2005 9:35:00 PM

Just ordered the 2nd Edition (good old Amazon)...

Woohoo!

SM

-----Original Message-----
From: Gennady Bystritksy [mailto:gfb@tonesoft.com]
Sent: 13 April 2005 21:04
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: newbie question re: variable assignment


Simon.Mullis@equinoxsolutions.com wrote:
> This is it... Many thanks.
>
> 1.upto(9) { |x| puts "#{x}"[0] }
>
> I was missing the literal form v. method info.
>
> Just so I know -- Where would I look to find this info? Rdoc? ri?

Pickaxe ("Programming Ruby" by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt).

>
> Thanks again.
>
> SM
>
>
> ...It's all getting a little bit clearer...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trans [mailto:transfire@gmail.com]
> Sent: 13 April 2005 19:15
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: newbie question re: variable assignment
>
>
> Hi--
> Dont; worry this is a low bite board :-)
>
>
>>Why doesn't this work?
>>
>>1.upto(9) do |x|
>> puts ?#{x}
>>end
>
>
> Well, its cuz you're trying to do string interpolation directly into
> ruby code, which can't be done. The interpolation (i.e. #{x}) only
> works in strings. Secondly, the ? is a literal form and not a method,
> so you can;t pass it arguments. To get the ascii value of a string use

> str[n] where n is the index of the character you wish to convert, in
> this case 0.
>
> 1.upto(9) do |x|
> puts "#{x}"[0]
> end
>
> BTW, I believe this will change in future verions of Ruby since Ruby
> will be gaining more advanced encoding. So instead there will be a
> specific method, like String#ascii(n), or something, to do this.
> [Correct me if I am misinformed all.] But for now the above is the
> way.
>
> T.
>
>
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The Peeler

6/12/2011 9:26:00 PM

0

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:13:22 -0600, The Rectum farted again:

>>
>>It is easier for Nazis like you to be holocausted or for Islam to be
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>
> Not at all, Grik raghead. Countries are added all the time. They can
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>
>>So please feel free to continue your sad lives.
>>
>>Unless of course you two blasphemous pieces of skata get holocausted
>>soon.
>
> Only jews are allowed to get 'holocausted'®?. To suggest otherwise is
> 'anti-semitic'®?.

<no snip of all the usual idiotic and psychotic garbage for laughs>

Entertaining everyone with your outstanding idiocy and psychosis again, The
Rectum? LOL

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