From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T02:44:21+09:00
Subject: Re: literal quote in an array?

On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> 2007/9/24, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com>:
>> using colons for now, but would like to somehow encapsulate a  
>> sentence
>> in this way (basically), with quotes.
>>
>> speaker = ["joe ", "betty "]
>> expression = ["said: ", "replied: ", "stated: "]
>> content = ["hello.", "bye."]
>>
>> 053:0> sentence = speaker[0] + expression[1] + content[0]
>> "joe replied: hello."
>> but I'd like to get:
>> "joe replied, "hello.""
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> !DSPAM:46f7f33b123781222944467!
> This can work if you do not have strange characters in the content:
> sentence = speaker[0] + expression[1] + content[0].inspect
>
> This is better:
> sentence = speaker[0] + expression[1] + "\"#{content[0]}\""

Or better still:

sentence = %{#{speaker[0]} #{expression[1]} "#{content[0]}"}

Then you don't need the extra spaces in the speaker and expression  
elements.

-Rob

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