From: Chris Dutton <cmbchris@...>
Date: 2002-01-03T04:46:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30072] Re: string variable within a string

in article 14f21c63.0201020325.4318f5bd@posting.google.com, Paul Vallance at
paulvallance@wanadoo.nl wrote on 1/2/02 6:25 AM:

> Hi, if I do this
> 
> @data2 = "/gettext(#{v},#{v1},0)\n"
> puts @data2  
> 
> ( ...where v is a fixnum = 720
> and v1 is a fixnum = 735...)
> 
> I get the following....
> 
> "/gettext(720
> ,735
> ,
> 
> when I would like to get this
> "/gettext(720,735,0)
> 
> the close curly brackets is being interpreted as a carriage return.
> Is there another way to put the contents of a variable into a string
> without using #{v}

maybe...

@data2 = "/gettext(%s,%s,0)\n" % [v, v1]
puts @data2

Works in Ruby 1.6.5 on OS X 10.1, at least.