From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T14:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a Perl script from Ruby

Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> 12 34 wrote:
> 
> class String
>   # Transforms this string into an escaped POSIX shell argument.
>   def shell_escape
>     inspect.gsub(/\\(\d{3})/) {$1.to_i(8).chr}
>   end
> end
> 
>> Open to suggestions on getting a string list 
>> from an array with double quotes around each item and a space between 
>> each item.
> 
> your_array.map {|s| s.shell_escape}.join(' ')

Thank you. Much more Rubyesh.
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