[MacRuby-devel] String functions not working in 3/17/2010 build

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Robert,

As I wrote earlier, please refrain yourself from using trunk right now for real development. It has well-known problems :-)

The NSString bridging code for the new String should land later this week...

Laurent

On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Robert Rice wrote:

> Hi group:
> 
> UTF-8 default is working again in 3/17 build but I have new problems with strings:
> 
> Given:
> 	def reportDate
> 		return nil if @calendar.nil?
> 		
> 		desc = @calendar.dateValue.description
> 		desc.slice(0..3) + desc.slice(5..6) + desc.slice(8..9)
> 	end
> 
> 	puts "rptdate #{reportDate}"
> 
> I get:
> 2010-03-17 23:03:32.320 MacRuby 0.5[1594:a0f] undefined method `slice' for #<String:0x2022a9c40>
> 
> 
> Given:
> 	def reportDate
> 		return nil if @calendar.nil?
> 		
> 		desc = @calendar.dateValue.description.to_s
> 		desc.slice(0..3) + desc.slice(5..6) + desc.slice(8..9)
> 	end
> 
> 	puts "rptdate #{reportDate()}"
> 
> I get: rptdate #<Stin:0
> 
> @calendar is linked to a Date Selector object.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob Rice
> 
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