oh yes I completely missed the "examples" option. Great ! One thing less to
worry about , thanks Ben :)


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:

>  kilon alios wrote:
>
> In section 1.9  page 18 there is this text
>
>    "At other times you may have a good idea that a method exists, but
> will have no idea what it might be called. The method finder can still
> help! For example, suppose that you would like to find a method that turns
> a string into upper case, for example, it would translate 'eureka' into
> 'EUREKA'.
>
>   The method finder will suggest a method that does what you want.8
>
> An asterisk at the beginning of a line in the right pane of the method
> finder indicates that this method is the one that was actually used to
> obtain the requested result. So, the asterisk in front of String
> asUppercase lets us know that the method asUppercase defined on the class 
> String
> was executed and returned the result we wanted. The methods that do not
> have an asterisk are just the other methods that have the same name as the
> ones that returned the expected result. So Character»asUppercase was not
> executed on our example, because 'eureka' is not a Character object.
>
> You can also use the method finder for methods with arguments; for
> example, if you are looking for a method that will find the greatest common
> factor of two integers, you might try 25. 35. 5 as an example. You can
> also give the method finder multiple examples to narrow the search space;
> the help text in the bottom pane explains how. "
>
> I tried " 'eureka' . 'EUREKA '" and the other suggestion it does not seem
> to work , should I remove this section ?
>
> It works for me...
> * World > Tools > Finder
> * Type...   'eureka' . 'EUREKA'
> * Change [Selectors] to [Examples]
>
>
>

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