From: Peter Versteegen <pversteegen@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T21:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Pretty Printing

Douglas,

Thanks, this works also.  The result is put in a string and the  
string is printed.

I guess what I was trying to do is to create a string that ruby is  
supposed to interpret, or execute. Perhaps there is another command  
to accomplish this.

Peter


On Aug 22, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Douglas F Shearer wrote:

> Hi Peter.
>
> On 22 Aug 2007, at 12:21, Peter Versteegen wrote:
>> # But this approach doesn't.  Why not? Are there other ways to  
>> make this simpler?
>
> Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick on this, but I get it to  
> work like this:
>
> ==========================
>
> a = ["a-value","b-value", "c-value"]
> b = [10,30,15]
>
> def header(names, widths)
>   header = ''
>   names.each_with_index do |v,i|
>     header += v.rjust widths[i]
>   end
>   header
> end
>
> p header(a, b)
>
> ==========================
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Douglas F Shearer
> dougal.s@gmail.com
> http://douglasfshearer.com
>
>
>