Newbie question re: variable assignment

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

Woohoo!

SM

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-----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 :slight_smile:

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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