From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T18:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: meaning of %w

On Jul 1, 5:08 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 01:52 , Junkone wrote:
>
> > what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
> > find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters
>
> %w doesn't have to do with sprintf afaik.
>
> Maybe you mean this instead:
>
> http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#12

in rails, this is how it create the options for select box.
<%= select(:rawdata, :symbol, %w{ AUD.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.GBP-
IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.JPY-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH GBP.USD-
IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CAD-IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CHF-IDEALPRO-CASH }) %>

what does the %w signify.