From: Dark Ambient Date: 2006-07-07T01:43:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Question: formatting strings from array for text files Thank you that was a huge improvement, still battling a few more format issues: when I open the file: It has the 3 hypens as the first line and a hyphen before every file name. Can't I get rid of those ? --- - c:/dir1/doc1.doc - c:/dir1/doc2.doc - c:/dir1/doc3.doc - c:/dir1/doc4.doc - c:/dir1/doc5.doc - c:/dir1/doc6.doc Stuart On 7/6/06, Justin Collins wrote: > Dark Ambient wrote: > > 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 wrote: > >> 2006/7/6, Dark Ambient : > >> > 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 > >> > >> -- > >> Have a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fussel-foto/ > >> > >> > > > Try using 'doc.puts' instead of 'doc.write'. 'puts' will automatically > add line breaks, whereas 'write' will not. > > -Justin > >