From: Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T12:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: strangeness with string concatenation and function return values

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:27, Mike Steiner wrote:
> I get an error when running code snippet A, but if I change it to B, there's
> no error. I'm not familiar enough with Ruby to know why this is. Could
> someone explain this?
> 
> ----- A -----
> def ReturnString ( )
>     return "abc"
> end
> 
> File.open ( "junk.txt" , "w" ) do | f |
>     f.write ( ReturnString ( ) + "\n" )
> end

You can't have that space between ReturnString and the parenthesis (you sure
like lots of spaces, eh?). Here's one way of doing it that should work:

def return_string
  'abc'
end

File.open('junk.txt', 'w') do |f|
  f.puts return_string
end


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Jesse Merriman
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