Simply question

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1

Can't understand:

# coding: cp1251

x = puts 'bbb'
puts x

out needs to be:

=> bbb
=> nil

But nil is not returned(bbb displayed),only empty line instead of nil is
on screen.

ruby v.1.9.2-p180

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2

Try

x = puts 'bbb'

puts x.inspect

Sam

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On 07/10/11 09:56, itankgo itankgo wrote:

Can't understand:

# coding: cp1251

x = puts 'bbb'
puts x

out needs to be:

=> bbb
=> nil

But nil is not returned(bbb displayed),only empty line instead of nil is
on screen.

ruby v.1.9.2-p180

3

IIf you pull up your irb, it does show =>NIL
The empty line is NIL but running it in a command prompt window will only output an empty line.
To prove this put (puts x.to_i)
It will output the value of that line which is "0"

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From: itankgo itankgo <itankgo@gmail.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
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Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:56 PM
Subject: Simply question

Can't understand:

# coding: cp1251

x = puts 'bbb'
puts x

out needs to be:

=> bbb
=> nil

But nil is not returned(bbb displayed),only empty line instead of nil is
on screen.

ruby v.1.9.2-p180

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4

The docs for IO#print, IO#puts, and OI#inspect help understand what's
going on here. puts outputs myobject.to_s followed by an added
newline. x is nil, the string representation of nil is '', so puts x
correctly outputs "\n". As Sam noted, the inspect method is what's
needed for these situations.

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Sam Duncan <sduncan@wetafx.co.nz> wrote:

On 07/10/11 09:56, itankgo itankgo wrote:

Can't understand:

# coding: cp1251

x = puts 'bbb'
puts x

out needs to be:

=> bbb
=> nil

But nil is not returned(bbb displayed),only empty line instead of nil is
on screen.

ruby v.1.9.2-p180

Try

x = puts 'bbb'

puts x.inspect

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Carina