The strip! method isn't corrupting the copy. It's that the strip! method returns nil if nothing was stripped from the string. That's why you are getting nil for the second array element in the copy.
Jamey On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM, RichardOnRails<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to copy one array into another, element by element, so that I > could edit the source data as necessary. I simultaneously changed a > source element using "strip!". The latter step corrupted the > copying. Without the bang operator, all works as expected. > > The above question, source code and output are stored at > http://www.pastie.org/539430. > > This is not an earth-shattering problem. I'm just curious why it > doesn't work ... especially because it took me a good while to figure > out the cause of my app's failure. > > Thanks in Advance, > Richard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
