Thank you very much Marc,

that was exactly what I was looking for.


On Apr 17, 3:22 am, Marc Heiler <sheve... / linuxmail.org> wrote:
> kelt wrote:
> > Hey,
>
> > I am a newbee in Ruby and since the language has many nice features it
> > struck me obvioous that it must be possible to evaluate a string in
> > such a way that it produces the corresponding operator. E.g.: "+"
> > would become a simple plus sign, thus allowing me to pass "+" as a
> > function to be done on two integers.
>
> > Thank you
>
> > kelt
>
> 2.send("+",5) # => 7
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