From: "Thomas B." <tpreal@...>
Date: 2008-09-24T02:04:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get Ruby objects printed out in their 'natural' f

Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> For debugging purposes, I'd like to be able to do something like
> 
> print [1,2,3]
> 
> and have "[1,2,3]" printed to the screen, not 123. How do I go about
> this. I've experimented with to_s and puts, and not found anything
> obvious.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken

Each object has method inspect and it does the trick. The irb in fact 
prints the result's inspect to show it to you.

["a",:b,3].inspect #=> "[\"a\", :b, 3]"

TPR.
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