From: Alan Chen <Digikata@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T09:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to format a number to always show two decimals?

mental@rydia.net wrote:
> Now, not being a former C programmer, you may not be so strongly
> tempted to write:
>
>  sprintf("%s%s%s", a.zolum, b.fep, c.gorza)
>
> when you could have simply written:
>
>  "#{a.zolum}#{b.fep}#{c.gorza}"
>
> ..but if you ever are, please be aware that it's worth TWO kittens.

That reminds me, what are the options for nicely text formatted table
output? I usually use something like:
[a.zolum, b.feb, c.gorza].inject("") { |row,col| row.concat "%7s" % col
}

Are there better alternatives?

- alan