Frederik Ramm wrote: > Returning an error should be no more difficult than throwing an > exception there if v.length exceeds 255, only thing I am not sure > about is whether Ruby will try to be smart and return the length > not in bytes but in characters...?
irb(main):001:0> 'fred'.length => 4 irb(main):002:0> 'fr\303\251d'.length => 5 (that's an é) cheers Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev