From: Matthew Moss <matt@...>
Date: 2008-12-11T12:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: P shows object values, so can u put P and value in txt?


On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> 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

Yes, that.  :D