Search an array

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It's short for "pretty print". It's meant to provide prettier
inspection for objects (mostly used for STDOUT, I imagine). I use it
for debugging sometimes.

It's part of the stdlib, so you can find docs for it at ruby-doc.org.

Regards,

Dan

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[mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Spence
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Search an array

Mike Fletcher wrote:
> irb(main):018:0> pp $0
> "C:/mhiqTest/testAdoConnection.rb"
> => nil
> irb(main):019:0> pp $a
> ["c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/ADO/ADO.rb:57:in `connect'",
> "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:424:in `connect'",
> "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:215:in `connect'",
> "C:/mhiqTest/testAdoConnection.rb:16"]
> => nil
> irb(main):020:0> $a.grep( %r/^#$0/ )
> => ["C:/mhiqTest/testAdoConnection.rb:16"]

What is "pp"? BTW, I'm very new to Ruby!