From: Tom Pollard <tomp@...>
Date: 2006-10-05T22:25:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Suppress result output in irb?


On Oct 5, 2006, at 2:44 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Tom Pollard wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to prevent irb from printing the result of a  
>> expression to the terminal on a command-by-command basis?  I'm  
>> trying to use irb and soap4r to play around with a SOAP server and  
>> in many cases the results are fairly long arrays; I'd like to be  
>> able to prevent these from being displayed automatically.   
>> IPython, for example, will suppress the output from a command if  
>> it's terminated with a semicolon (';').  I was hoping for  
>> something similar in irb.
>
> irb(main):002:0> "q"*1000; 0
> => 0

Thanks. (I feel silly for not having thought of that last night.)   
It's much better than nothing.

But, is there a good reason why irb itself couldn't suppress the  
display of the results when you gave it a command with a trailing  
semicolon? I don't see how that would break anything.

Tom