From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-12-11T11:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: P shows object values, so can u put P and value in txt?

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Moss <matt@moss.name> wrote:
> By 'ri p', it was meant that you do that on the command-line. (Actually,
> you'd want to type: 'ri Kernel#p')
>
> 'ri' provides documentation for Ruby classes/methods.
>
> If you run the command 'ri Kernel#p', you'll see that 'p' returns nil. So
> you can't use it directly to write to a file. Have you tried 'to_s'?

If the OP wants string output from what he sees with Kernel#p,
Object#inspect should be used, not to_s

>> [1,2,3].inspect
=> "[1, 2, 3]"
>> [1,2,3].to_s
=> "123"

This returns the same string that p will output to the console.

-greg

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