From: Steve Wilhelm <steve@...831.com>
Date: 2009-12-08T16:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: indent strings(make them lined up)

Thomas Sawyer wrote:
> On Dec 7, 11:26�pm, Jon Kim <viashi...@hanmail.net> wrote:
>> www.google.com� � => 123.123.123.12www.ibm.com� � � �=> 123.112.123.12www.iowahawkeyes� => 123.123.112.12
>>
>> original code was
>>
>> puts (dns + " => " + ip)
>>
>> I tried next code
>>
>> puts (dns + " �"*(20 - dns.length) + " = > " + ip)
>>
>> but it did not work well. please teach me how to do it.
> 
> "%-30s %s" % [dns, ip]

Thomas's suggestion of String Format (%) is correct, just revising 
example to reflect the original code above.

puts "%-20s => %s" % [dns, ip]
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