From: redstun <redstun@...>
Date: 2010-12-15T16:40:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String.populate(data) for sprintf?

Ah, right, so I was just asking for something like

class String
  alias :populate :%
end

hmmm, now I'm not sure if this worth the merit of readability

On Dec 15, 2:38 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> |fmt_str = 'aligned numbers: %6d %6d"
> |result = fmt_str.populate(1, 2)
>
> fmt_str = "aligned numbers: %6d %6d"
> result = fmt_str % [1, 2]
>
>                                                         matz.