From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-17T11:12:12+09:00
Subject: Re: array -> list

il Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:23:09 +0900, Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> ha
scritto::

>Is there a way to convert an array to a (parameter-)list?
>
>I often find myself doing things like:
>
>   year,mon,day,hour,minute = ParseDate.parse(datestring)
>   printf("%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d\n",year,mon,day,hour,minute)
>
>while it would be a lot nicer to do:
>
>   printf("%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d\n", ParseDate.parse(datestring)

just use a * just before an array to make it a list of parameters.

Btw, maybe you could just use 
print Date.strftime(yourformat)