From: Cristi BALAN <mental@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T03:21:46+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie programming question:

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:15:53 +0900, DiesIrae <danb@mojolin.com> wrote:
> 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`

this line should be
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
> 

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Cristi BALAN