From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-08T05:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Grep via Ruby


On Feb 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
>> Minor suggestion, line is going to end in an nl anyway. I would  
>> use print, unless you want all that extra whitespace in the output.
>
> puts() adds a newline character only if the string didn't already  
> end in one.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>

Egads! Surely you jest!

% irb
irb(main):001:0> puts "Hello\n"
Hello
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> puts "Hello\n "
Hello
=> nil


You jesteth not. And to think this whole time I've been typing print  
when I could have been typing puts.