From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-02-09T04:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: assembling a string of characters?

Hi,

Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@aon.at> writes:

> how to create a string from variables containing numeric values of range 
> 0..255?
> 
> print "\32\32\32" # => '   '
> 
> #i tried the following:
> a = 32
> "\\#{a}"*3 # => '\32\32\32'
> 
> now i would like to let ruby process the result again to get the desired 
> result '   '.

% irb
>> a = 32
=> 32
>> a.chr * 3
=> "   "
>> format("%c", a) * 3
=> "   "
>> ("%c" % a) * 3
=> "   "
>> ([a].pack "c") * 3
=> "   "

-- 
eban