From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T16:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Using the p command to print files


On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Une b�vue wrote:

> Benjamin Stiglitz <ben@tanjero.com> wrote:
>
>>    ri Object::new
> ~/Desktop/ruby-1.8.4%> ri Object::new
> ------------------------------------------------------------  
> Object::new
>      Object::new()
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>      Not documented
> ~/Desktop/ruby-1.8.4%> ri Kernel#p
> zsh: no matches found: Kernel#p
>
> just for fun )))
> -- 
> une b�vue
>

  (~/):~>$: ri "Kernel#p"

--------------------------------------------------------------- Kernel#p
      p(obj, ...)    => nil
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      For each object, directly writes obj.inspect followed by the
      current output record separator to the program's standard output.
      p bypasses the Ruby I/O libraries.

         S = Struct.new(:name, :state)
         s = S['dave', 'TX']
         p s

      produces:

         #<S name="dave", state="TX">

you need to quote it because of the # char

Cheers-
Ezra