From: "Joseph E. Savard" <joseph.savard@...>
Date: 2010-08-11T03:58:07+09:00
Subject: Re: changing the spacing in a string?

Sweet! :-)
> From: <brabuhr@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:52:46 +0900
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Subject: Re: changing the spacing in a string?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Ainley <wrinkliez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys.  I have an array full of strings.  When I put the strings, it
>> looks like this http://pastebin.com/eeicUCqL which is okay, but it looks
>> a little sloppy to me.  Is there a way I can get the strings to
>> dynamically space themselves so that they look evenly spaced? ala
>> http://pastebin.com/cRcG97sK ?  Should I split each string into it's
>> separate parts, and then print them via format?  Or something...?
> 
> And for a different approach :)
> 
> /tmp> cat i.rb
> str = Array.new
> str << "gm-notify  0.10.2-1~ppa1   AlexanderHungenberg  (2010-05-05)"
> str << "gm-notify  0.9-0~ppa6   TomVetterlein  (2009-05-15)"
> str << "gm-notify  0.10.2-1~ppa1   AlexanderHungenberg  (2010-05-13)"
> str << "gm-notify  0.9+r39-1~ppa1   SeanStoops  (2009-12-22)"
> str << "gm-notify  0.9-0~ppa7   NikolaKovacs  (2009-09-27)"
> str << "gm-notify  0.8-0ppa2   TomVetterlein  (2009-04-27)"
> 
> x = IO.popen("column -t", "w+"){|p|
>   p.puts str.join("\n")
>   p.close_write
>   p.read
> }
> 
> puts x
> 
> /tmp> ruby i.rb
> gm-notify  0.10.2-1~ppa1   AlexanderHungenberg  (2010-05-05)
> gm-notify  0.9-0~ppa6      TomVetterlein        (2009-05-15)
> gm-notify  0.10.2-1~ppa1   AlexanderHungenberg  (2010-05-13)
> gm-notify  0.9+r39-1~ppa1  SeanStoops           (2009-12-22)
> gm-notify  0.9-0~ppa7      NikolaKovacs         (2009-09-27)
> gm-notify  0.8-0ppa2       TomVetterlein        (2009-04-27)
>