From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T04:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: format problem

chen li wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thank you so much for your time and input.
> 
> I just need to print  a 2D array to screen in the
> following format:
> 
> [
>  [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12],
>  [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24],
> ..
>  [85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96]]
> 
> 
> 
> After I create a 2D array of 8 row x12 column 2D from
> a 1D array I want to print this format directly to the
> screen without writing further code lines. If the
> column number is less than 10 I can print the
> data(using pp) in the format above but if column
> number is 12 I can't. To solve this the only thing I
> can do is to write another loop(see below) to go
> through to the same 2D again.
> 
> _2D_array.each{|i| puts i}

Problem: The library 'pp' cannot produce the result you want.

Solution: don't use 'pp'. Instead, write an additional line of code.

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Paul Lutus
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