# Re: Fun with ranges!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-fun-with-ranges/49006>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 28, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-fun-with-ranges/49006 "2005-11-28T17:06:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![warrenbrown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@warrenbrown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/warrenbrown)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-fun-with-ranges/49006/1 "2005-11-28T17:06:27Z")

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> > Double-strange… I wonder if it’s a windows thing  
> > or a version thing (and if so why it only pops up  
> > somewhere between 1.8.0 and 1.8.3).
> 
> Interesting – it seems to be a 1.8.2 thing.

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It's also an irb thing:

```

> ruby -ve “‘a’…3”  
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]  
> -e:1: warning: useless use of … in void context

> irb  
> irb(main):001:0\> ‘a’…3  
> =\> “a”…3

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- Warren B.
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