From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T11:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: pp to a string, not stdout

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:54:53AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
 >
> >pp foo # pretty prints foo to stdout
> >
> >But I want to print to a string, which I'll then be handling in rails.
> 
> irb(main):009:0> [1,2,3].pretty_print_inspect
> => "[1, 2, 3]"
> irb(main):010:0> [1,2,3].pretty_inspect
> => "[1, 2, 3]\n"

There is also the quite awkward:

irb(main):003:0> PP.pp((1..30).to_a, s = '')
=> "[1,\n 2,\n 3,\n 4,\n 5,\n 6,\n 7,\n 8,\n 9,\n 10,\n 11,\n 12,\n 13,\n 14,\n 15,\n 16,\n 17,\n 18,\n 19,\n 20,\n 21,\n 22,\n 23,\n 24,\n 25,\n 26,\n 27,\n 28,\n 29,\n 30]\n"
irb(main):004:0> s
=> "[1,\n 2,\n 3,\n 4,\n 5,\n 6,\n 7,\n 8,\n 9,\n 10,\n 11,\n 12,\n 13,\n 14,\n 15,\n 16,\n 17,\n 18,\n 19,\n 20,\n 21,\n 22,\n 23,\n 24,\n 25,\n 26,\n 27,\n 28,\n 29,\n 30]\n"

marcel
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