From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T03:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie programming question:

Hi,

DiesIrae wrote:
> 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`

   command[0]=`ping #{host}`

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

Note the #{...} notation in the backticks above.

Happy rubying

Stephan


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