Ruby documentation typo

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

Hi all

I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it
would be OK to mention it here.

The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page:

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Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the
quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what
we want.

a =3D %w{ ant bee cat dog elk }
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I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog
talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes.

Best regards,
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Behrang Saeedzadeh
http://www.jroller.com/page/behrangsa

 

[David A. Black]

Hi --

Hi all

I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it
would be OK to mention it here.

The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page:

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Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the
quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what
we want.

a = %w{ ant bee cat dog elk }

Actually %w can take just about any delimiter:

%w-a b c-
%w!a b c!

etc. So you can definitely use {}.


David

 

[Tim Hunter]

I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog
talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes.

The character following %w can be any "non-alphabetic or non-multibyte
character." (I'm quoting from pp. 303-304 in the 2nd Ed.) %w always
creates an array of strings, regardless of what delimiter character you use.

 

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

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Hi David,
Thanks for the information. Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed=
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Best Regards,
Behrang S.

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Behrang Saeedzadeh
http://www.jroller.com/page/behrangsa

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[Nikolai Weibull]

Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed that page yet so...

You can try the examples in the book in the interactive ruby shell, irb.
Try running it as

% irb

at your shell prompt and then just paste the examples and see the
results,
nikolai

 

[James Britt]

Hi David,
Thanks for the information. Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed
that page yet so...

Welcome to Rubyland!

James Britt

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[Gennady Bystritksy]

It may serve as a guideline for new people -- try finish the book before
filing bug/typo reports ;-).

Or, at least, try it in irb.

Welcome to Ruby

Gennady.