From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-08-20T04:08:57+09:00
Subject: Re: local variable bug

Email55555 wrote:
> 
> I am newbie in Ruby, I cannot find the bug on my financial program.
> The question is related to local variable in block.
> Here is a quick example:
> 
> a = 5000
> r = 0.06
> p = 100
> (1..5).each {|i|
>   puts "#{i}\t\#{a}\t#{a*r}\t#{p}" # <-- the #{a} is not print
                ^
                | 
You escape the # sign here, so the #{a} part isn't parsed as an
expression to be interpolated into the string. 
Remove the \ and it should work somewhat better.


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