Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 10. Feb 2005, 09:26:39 +0900 schrieb Bill Guindon:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:14:14 +0900, Jordi Bunster <jordi / bunster.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone have one of those algorithms that convert a phone number to
> > a word, using /usr/share/dict/words, for example?
> 
> Sounds like it would make a good ruby quiz, and Friday's coming.

  words = %w(zero one two ...)
  number.scan( /[0-9]/).map { |x| words[ x.to_i] }.join ' '

A nice quiz would be saying numbers in French.

Bertram


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