On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:22 PM, kleinman wrote:

> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]
               ^^^^^^^^^^

That's not 1.8.2, 1.8.2 was released 2004-12-25

> tripus% irb
> irb(main):001:0> "test".rjust(5,"x")
> => " test"
> irb(main):002:0> "test".ljust(5, "x")
> => "test "

$ ruby182-orig -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
$ ruby182-orig -e 'p "test".rjust(5, "x")'
"xtest"
$ ruby182-orig -e 'p "test".ljust(5, "x")'
"testx"
$ ruby183 -v
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]
$ ruby183 -e 'p "test".ljust(5, "x")'
"testx"
$ ruby183 -e 'p "test".rjust(5, "x")'
"xtest"


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