From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T02:54:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one get a String representation of an Array (not	to_s)?

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 02:48 +0900, junk5@microserf.org.uk wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> (I know about to_s --- that isn't what this post is about!)
> 
> Say I have an array that I create with:
> 
> a = [1, 2, [3, 4], 5]
> 
> At the irb prompt, Ruby replies:
> 
> => [1, 2, [3, 4], 5]
> 
> So how do I get a String containing "[1, 2, [3, 4], 5]"? Doing a.to_s
> gives me "12345", which is not what I want.

s = [1,2,[3,4],5].inspect
# => "[1, 2, [3, 4], 5]"

puts s
[1, 2, [3, 4], 5]

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk