From: sanha lee <chdiary@...>
Date: 2005-11-28T13:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: string substitution question

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I am not sure, but
how about use eval function

maybe like this
eval(%Q(puts #{str}))

I want it work.
let me know that.
good luck

On 11/28/05, ljw1001@gmail.com <ljw1001@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm reading a file using:
>
>   " str =3D IO.read("textfile1.txt") "
>
> and trying to output the results using
>
>    " puts str "
> The problem is that I want to substitute values in the file.  It
> includes this text: #{(3+4).to_s}
>
> I expected the puts statement to output 7, but it outputs the code
> literally as #{(3+4).to_s}
>
> How can i get this substitution to happen?
>
> thanks for your help.
>
>
>

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