From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-02-28T08:31:47+09:00
Subject: Re: String interpolation method?

On Feb 27, 2008, at 4:53 PM, John Carter wrote:

> Ok, I'm being stupid probably...
>
> But I can't spot a method to do string interpolation.
>
> I have a string...
>
> a = 'bra#{c}ket'
>
> The variable c isn't available at the stage of setting that up.

You want a templating solution, like the ERb code that ships with Ruby:

   #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU

   require "erb"

   template = ERB.new("bra<%= c %>ket")

   # and later...
   c = "c"
   p template.result

   __END__

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II