From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T21:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: prettyprint or pp questions

On Thursday, November 25, 2004, 10:37:16 PM, Hal wrote:

> There are three things I would like to do but I am not
> sure how:

> 2. Retrieve the text without printing it (analogous to #inspect):

>         str = obj.pretty    # or whatever

  require 'extensions/object'
  str = obj.pp_s

> 1. Redirect the output to another IO -- something like

>         STDERR.pp obj

  STDERR.puts obj.pp_s

Cheers,
Gavin

P.S. It seems to me that all the questions you're asking should be
more elegantly solved by the 'pp' library.  That it, it should all
"just work".