From: danb@... (DiesIrae)
Date: 2004-08-21T03:15:53+09:00
Subject: newbie programming question:

Hello,

I am trying to pass a variable to the backticks `` function, but it is
always interpreted as a string.  How can I get it to read the value,
instead?  And once I do that, how can I get the results into an array?
 Here's the example code (this probably looks horribly wrong to some
of you...):


def ping_host host
  command=Array.new
  command[0]=`ping host`
  puts
  puts command
end

puts 'What host would you like to ping?'
  host = gets.chomp
  ping_host host

thanks for any help!

Dan