From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-06-03T03:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid?


On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:27 AM, Jeff Pritchard wrote:

> 	  @barString = "<img src=\"blublock.jpg\" width= 
> \"replace_with_width\"
> height=\"replace_with_height\">\n"


>
> Any coding comments welcome.

I don't think the replace technique is very elegant. One thing you  
can do instead is make a string with %s for holes:

irb(main):001:0> x = "1 %s 3"
=> "1 %s 3"
irb(main):003:0> x %2
=> "1 2 3"

also instead of escaping lots of double quotes by hand you can using  
a different way to surround the string. see pickaxe page 320

irb(main):007:0> %Q-a "b" c-
=> "a \"b\" c"
irb(main):008:0> %[dog "cat" rat]
=> "dog \"cat\" rat"




-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/