On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:34 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss / yahoo.com> wrote:
> each() doesn't create a new array.  ¨Âèù îïõóíá𨩿  ¨Âîä ùïîååä ôï
> be careful using delete!() because it will change the strings in the
> original array too.

This obviously depends on what he needs. The fact that each doesn't
create a new array can be a good thing :-).

> array = ["hel\nlo", "bl\nah"]
>
> new_arr = array.map do |str|
>  ¨Âôò®äåìåô塨¢Ü
> end

This I don't understand. You are modifying the original strings but
creating a new array with them. What could be the use case for this?

>
> p new_arr
> p array
>
> --output:--
> ["hello", "blah"]
> ["hello", "blah"]
>
>
> If you really want to preserve the original array, don't use delete! on
> the strings.  ¨Âôèïôèåèáîäéæ ùïäïî§îååä ô÷öåòóéïîó ïæ ôè> array hanging around in memory, then use all ! methods:
>
> array = ["hel\nlo", "bl\nah"]
>
> array.map! do |str|
>  ¨Âôò®äåìåô塨¢Ü
> end

You don't need map! here, cause you don't want to change which object
each position references. You just want to modify the strings
themselves. What I would say is that, if you need to preserve the
original strings (because they are referenced by other variables) but
use the same array, do:

a = "hel\nlo"
b = "bl\nah"
array = [a,b]

array.map! do |str|
  str.delete("\n")
end

The bang version of map, because you want to change the array, but the
non-bang version of delete so as to keep the original strings. The two
cases you propose above have less use cases, IMHO.

Jesus.