Stepping out on a Limb - some very ugly code

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Wow, thanks. There's so much out there - it's a bit overwhelming. I feel
like a baby goldfish in a non-chlorinated swimming pool filled with rafts
and other assorted swimming paraphernalia trying not to get lost. :slight_smile:

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On 3/1/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Louis J Scoras wrote:

If you keep doing a lot of this, you might want to look into the
HighLine library. It gives you the tools to validate and convert
input as well as issue error messages on certain conditions:

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

James Edward Gray II

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<snip>>

Lose the !. Just issue a new string with capitalize. There's no
serious performance or memory issue here (unless someone has a name
the size of "War and Peace" :slight_smile:

Even that should not be a problem:

"War and Peace".size

#=> 13

:wink:

max

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On 3/1/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

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Why do things need to be so simple? :slight_smile:

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On 3/1/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

Lose the !. Just issue a new string with capitalize. There's no
serious performance or memory issue here (unless someone has a name
the size of "War and Peace" :slight_smile:

David

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