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    Issues with IRB ends listening.

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    The .chomp method doesn't seem to be removing whitespace from the beginning

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  • Jessica Barnett
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    Ruby String.replace method

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  • Atanas Sqnkov
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    A mistaken answer option?

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  • Jean Bae
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    I'm confused by explanation of %{sting} vs %q{string} ... could this be clarified and with perhaps another example?

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    Why did the ASCII value for the letter not appear when I used first_name[0]? Instead I got the actual letter "A".

    Posted September 26, 2014 5:29pm by Alexander Bromage
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  • Chris Massie
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    So for the Extra Credit for the Strings badge, I don't recall learning the method for removing punctuation.

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  • Adam Zuckerberg
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    How to clear the IRB screen in Windows? CTRL + L does nothing, CLEAR does nothing?

    Posted August 18, 2014 10:15pm by Adam Zuckerberg
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  • Harish Ramachandran
    Harish Ramachandran
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    Strings in Ruby

    Posted June 11, 2014 11:42am by Harish Ramachandran
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