Difference between puts and print

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Hello all

What is the difference between ‘print’ and ‘puts’ in rubese? What are the
advantages or disadvantages to using each?

Thanks
–Andrew

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puts “hello”

is like

print “hello\n”

I don’t like typing “\n” at the end, so I generally use puts. But the
rare time I don’t want a terminating new line I have to go back to print.

Daniel.

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Hello all

What is the difference between ‘print’ and ‘puts’ in rubese? What are the
advantages or disadvantages to using each?

Thanks
–Andrew

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Hello all

What is the difference between ‘print’ and ‘puts’ in rubese? What are the
advantages or disadvantages to using each?

#puts appends a newline and outputs each argument to a new line
#print doesn’t append anything and seems to separate arguments by a space

The “new line”/“space” bits are probably affected by some variable, but that’s
the practical difference, anyway.

Thanks
–Andrew

Gavin

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From: “andrew delboy” andrew@cyber.com.au