From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-06-04T23:12:15+09:00
Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid?

On 6/2/06, Jeff Pritchard <jp@jeffpritchard.com> wrote:
> 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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>
>

Or you could just:

@htmlString = %Q(<img src="blublock.jpg" width="#{barWidth}"
height="#{barHeight}">\n)

pth