From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T22:42:09+09:00
Subject: Re: pretty_print woes


On Jun 28, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:

>>>   require 'pp'
>>>   ....
>>>   result=foo(bar)
>>>   $my_message="The function call foo("+
>>>       bar.pretty_print_inspect+
>>>       ") returned: "+result.pretty_print_inspect
>>>
>>> This works well most of the time, for example if the values
>> formatted
>>> with pretty_print_inspect are arrays or numbers. I get, however, a
>>> runtime error when calling for String:
>>>
>>>   "abc".pretty_print_inspect
>>> RuntimeError: pretty_print is not overridden for String
>>>
>>> Is there a different way to use the module pp, so that its
>> output goes
>>> to a string?
>> irb(main):009:0> puts "foo\"bar".pretty_inspect
>> "foo\"bar"
>> => nil
>
> Thanks a lot! Nearly perfect!! (Actually, I use pretty_inspect.chomp,
> because pretty_inspect adds a \n to the formatted string).
>
> Ronald
>
Actually, puts is adding that \n to the string, but your result is  
what you wanted!