Object print issue using p

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class User

def initialize(name)

@name = name

end

def get_name

@name

end

end

:get_name

obj = User.new(‘Raj’)

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj.inspect

“#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name="Raj">”

p obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

puts obj

#User:0x000056458c0283e8

p obj print same thing two times, Why?

My Ruby version is:

ruby -v

ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]

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I assume you trying it in IRB. IRBs logic is to:

  1. perform the command

  2. print what that command returned

As p method returns its argument: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Kernel.html#method-i-p — you get this:

p obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”> — that’s p working, outputing the object

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”> — that’s p method returned.

For puts, you don’t see the second line, because puts returns nothing: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Kernel.html#method-i-puts

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2018-02-24 12:23 GMT+02:00 Raj Kumar Sharma raj4057kumar@gmail.com:

class User

def initialize(name)

@name = name

end

def get_name

@name

end

end

:get_name

obj = User.new(‘Raj’)

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj.inspect

“#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name="Raj">”

p obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

puts obj

#User:0x000056458c0283e8

p obj print same thing two times, Why?

My Ruby version is:

ruby -v

ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]

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Yes, I tried in irb.

Thnx

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Victor Shepelev zverok.offline@gmail.com wrote:

I assume you trying it in IRB. IRBs logic is to:

  1. perform the command
  1. print what that command returned

As p method returns its argument: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Kernel.html#method-i-p — you get this:

p obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”> — that’s p working, outputing the object

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”> — that’s p method returned.

For puts, you don’t see the second line, because puts returns nothing: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Kernel.html#method-i-puts

2018-02-24 12:23 GMT+02:00 Raj Kumar Sharma raj4057kumar@gmail.com:

class User

def initialize(name)

@name = name

end

def get_name

@name

end

end

:get_name

obj = User.new(‘Raj’)

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

obj.inspect

“#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name="Raj">”

p obj

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

#<User:0x000056458c0283e8 @name=“Raj”>

puts obj

#User:0x000056458c0283e8

p obj print same thing two times, Why?

My Ruby version is:

ruby -v

ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux]

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