Your version has no side-effect on the array, so it's not exactly the
same as the original ... :)

On 11/9/06, Bruno Michel <bruno / exceliance.fr> wrote:
> Chris Mueller a ñÄrit :
> > Hi,
> > i am new to ruby and i am wondering how many more ways (and what ways)
> > there are to do this:
> >
> > seperated_words = "hi, you, guys"
> > words_array = seperated_words.split(",")
> > for i in 0 ... words_array.length
> >   words_array[i] = words_array[i].strip
> > end
> >
> > i suppose there's a one-liner that you write before you can think "ruby"
> > doesn't it ???
> >
> > thx,
> >
> > chris
>
> Hi,
>
> this is my version :
>
> "hi, you, guys".split(',').map { |word| word.strip }
> => ["hi", "you", "guys"]
>
> --
> Bruno Michel
>
>