From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T01:17:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: formatting strings from array for text files

I must have not explained myself well.
Right now my file looks like this:

c:/dir1/doc1.docc;/dir1/doc3.docc:/dir1/doc4.docc:/dir1/doc5.doc
..........i.e. no line breaks

I want it took look like this:
c:/dir1/doc1.doc
c;/dir1/doc3.doc
c:/dir1/doc4.doc
c:/dir1/doc5.doc
..........

Stuart

On 7/6/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2006/7/6, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
> > I'm not sure who to have an array format correctly when written to a text file.
>
> What does "correctly" mean?
>
> > Doing something like myarray = ['five','four','three','two','one']
> > works almost correctly but
> > myarray = ['.././*.docs']  seems to write them out without linebreaks.
>
> This is not a print statement.  What did you do to actually print it?
>
> > So while I can figure out how to print them nicely using some iterator
> > to the screen
> > Using,
> >       File.open filename, 'w' do |doc|
> >       doc.write myarray
> >       end
> > I can't seem to figure out a way to format the strings correctly.
>
> Try this:
>
> doc.write myarray.join ", "
>
> Depends on what you mean by "proper output".
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert
>
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