From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T03:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie programming question:


"DiesIrae" <danb@mojolin.com> wrote in message
> 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`
                            ^^^^^^^^
try this:

     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