From: Jeff Pritchard <jp@...>
Date: 2006-06-03T10:42:31+09:00
Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid?

Elliot Temple wrote:
> 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"
> 
> -- Elliot Temple
> http://www.curi.us/blog/

So my multiline gsub tempstring "<img src=\"blublock.jpg\" 
width=\"replace_with_width\" height=\"replace_with_height\">\n" 
nastiness would become:

@barString = %Q(<img src="blublock.jpg" width="%d" height="%d">\n)
@htmlString << @barString % [barWidth,barHeight]

yes?

Very cool language.

thanks,
jp

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