From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T04:43:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29644] Re: putting contents of variable into a string

You need to use

#{v}

rather than
(#v)

Ralph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Vallance" <paulvallance@wanadoo.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:36 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:29643] putting contents of variable into a string


> Dear ruby users
> 
> This doesn't work in ruby 1.6.5 in windows. If I receive some data
> from a TCP server and put it into a variable (v), remove some trailing
> text and a carriage return, and then try to put the contents of v (#v)
> into a subsequent send string (  "/ispicbox(#v)\n"  ) I get nothing
> returned from my server (ie @boxtype = nil). Have cross checked my
> server softwares and its OK.
> 
> regards 
> Paul Vallance
> 
> code follows.....
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> 
> require 'socket'
> 
> 
> t = TCPSocket.new("192.168.0.100",13)
> @data = t.recv(110)
> puts @data
> t.send("/createdoc(Box ID test,210 mm,297 mm,0 mm,0 mm,0 mm,0 mm,
> 0,1,0,0)\n",0)
> @data = t.recv(30)
> puts @data
> t.send("/newbox(4,0 mm,0 mm,150 mm,210 mm,0)\n",0)
> @data = t.recv(30)
> puts @data
> t.send("/firstbox\n",0)
> @readdata = t.recv(30)
> puts @readdata // check value on console
> v = @readdata
> v.gsub!(/TCP\/XT OK/, "") //remove TCP/XT OK
> v.chop!  //remove Carriage return
> puts v // check value on console
> t.send("/ispicbox(#v)\n",0)
> @boxType = t.recv(30)
> puts @boxtype
> t.close
>