From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-05-25T01:13:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Using sprintf() to print a Hash

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
>
> 2011/5/24 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
>> >> sprintf("  %-20s %20s", "#{key.to_s}:", value.to_s)
>> >
>> > That's overly complicated: you employ two text replacement mechanisms.
>>  Just do
>> >
>> > printf("  %-20s: %20s\n", key, value)
>>
>> Yes, initially I used key.to_s as I have Symbols as keys and thougth
>> that a string is required.
>
>
> Note that the colon belongs to the argument though. Otherwise they won't be
> next to their keys.

Right, I overlooked that.  Good catch!  I usually prefer to have all
colons aligned, that's why I probably didn't notice.

Kind regards

robert

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