how come when i do this m = %w[cat [dog dog] mouse] and then request
m[1] instead of giving me [“dog”, “dog”] it gives me “[dog”
do i have to use the shorthand %w for the inner array too?
Corey wrote:
how come when i do this m = %w[cat [dog dog] mouse] and then request
m[1] instead of giving me [“dog”, “dog”] it gives me “[dog”do i have to use the shorthand %w for the inner array too?
i tride it on the inner array and it return %w"[dog" so that doesnt
work, the %w doesnt seem to work accros the board the way i thought it
would.
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Corey wrote:
Corey wrote:
how come when i do this m = %w[cat [dog dog] mouse] and then request
m[1] instead of giving me [“dog”, “dog”] it gives me “[dog”do i have to use the shorthand %w for the inner array too?
i tride it on the inner array and it return %w"[dog" so that doesnt
work, the %w doesnt seem to work accros the board the way i thought it
would.
As mentioned a few weeks ago on this list, you must escape
whitespace within a single “word” using backslashes (a convention of
UNIX shells, AFAIK):
irb(main):003:0> %w(cat dog\ dog mouse)
=> [“cat”, “dog dog”, “mouse”]
irb(main):004:0> %w(cat dog\ dog mouse this\ is\ \ \ a\ long\ phrase)
=> [“cat”, “dog dog”, “mouse”, “this is a long phrase”]
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Corey wrote:
oh ok thanks i am new to programming and have only been around this
forum for about 3 days now.
Ah, I was trying to give you a hint about ruby-talk archives:
http://www.ruby-talk.org. There you can find every discussion that
was ever occurred on the ruby-talk mailing list.
Happy hunting. 
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As mentioned a few weeks ago on this list, you must escape
whitespace within a single “word” using backslashes (a convention of
UNIX shells, AFAIK):
oh ok thanks i am new to programming and have only been around this
forum for about 3 days now.