From: Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@...>
Date: 2006-01-06T21:44:21+09:00
Subject: Re: how remove puts inside method?

Carlos Delmar wrote:
>> I'm not really sure what you're up to.  Can you elaborate?
> 
> I'd like the output of process_transaction as a long string. But I don't 
> completely understand the post from Kevin:
> 
>> output = ""
>> ...
>> output << line_of_file.....
>> ...
>> return output
> 
> where does this go?
> 
> If the method works I would like to apply it to each line of 
> transactions array and output the result to a new file.
> 
> here's the latest version of the script: 
> http://rafb.net/paste/results/D632e199.html

Just put this type of structure in whichever function you are trying to 
capture the output of.

first line creates a string object, then you use the '<<' to append 
output to that string, then you do something with the string when you 
are done.

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