From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T04:51:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Sort pseudo-lists

pete boardman wrote:
> One more thing - I forgot that I need to get the result back to a  
> string... So (thanks to your help andn Ruby's 'eval') I can go from  this:
> 
> "{{3.1, 1.3, 2.5, 2.1}, {2.1, 3.1, 2.4, 2.2}, {1.4, 2.2, 2.1, 4.2}}"
> 
> to this:
> 
> [[1.4, 2.2, 2.1, 4.2], [2.1, 3.1, 2.4, 2.2], [3.1, 1.3, 2.5, 2.1]]
> 
> but I can't persuade the 'p' method to turn this back into a string:

Kernel#p actually prints stuff, using #inspect rather than #to_s. So,
my_array.inspect will give you the below String.

> "[[1.4, 2.2, 2.1, 4.2], [2.1, 3.1, 2.4, 2.2], [3.1, 1.3, 2.5, 2.1]]"
> 
> (and I should be able to go from here to :
> 
> "{{1.4, 2.2, 2.1, 4.2}, {2.1, 3.1, 2.4, 2.2}, {3.1, 1.3, 2.5, 2.1}}"
> 
> on my own :-)

Yep, just do the exact inverse of how you got the normal Array syntax.
Why do you need to translate it back to the same form, though?

> Pete

E