From: paulvallance@... (Paul Vallance)
Date: 2001-12-30T08:17:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29663] Re: putting contents of variable into a string

thanks & apologies, I made a stupid typo. @boxtype should be
@boxType,this explains  why puts @boxtype was always nil.  thanks for
clarifiying #{v}.
regards
Paul



"Ralph Mason" <ralph.mason@telogis.com> wrote in message news:<011c01c190a1$239471f0$0101a8c0@p3>...
> 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
> >