Ruby Programming: String: puts and print


	Ruby Programming: String: puts and print

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7-14-2008 7:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ff402ea-674d-439b-a7ba-f43f97b507a2/4541E17B-D976-4735-99A8-FB8F8A246B99/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikibooks.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: puts" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&action=edit&section=5">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">puts</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><P>We've been using the <CODE>puts</CODE> function quite a bit to print out text. Whenever <CODE>puts</CODE> prints out text, it automatically prints out a newline after the text. For example, try the following code.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><PRE class="source-ruby"><SPAN class="kw3">puts</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"Say"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"hello"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"to"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"the"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"world"</SPAN>
</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><P>The result:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><PRE>$ <B>hello-world.rb</B>
Say
hello
to
the
world
</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: print" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&action=edit&section=6">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">print</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><P>In contrast, Ruby's <CODE>print</CODE> function only prints out a newline if you specify one. For example, try out the following code. We include a newline at the end of <CODE>print</CODE>'s argument list so that the shell prompt appears on a new line, after the text.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><PRE class="source-ruby"><SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"Say"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"hello"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"to"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"the"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"world"</SPAN>, <SPAN class="st0">"<SPAN class="es0">\n</SPAN>"</SPAN>
</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><P>The result:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><PRE>$ <B>hello-world.rb</B>
Sayhellototheworld
</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><P>The following code produces the same output, with all the words run together.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Strings&oldid=1093022"><PRE class="source-ruby"><SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"Say"</SPAN>
<SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"hello"</SPAN>
<SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"to"</SPAN>
<SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"the"</SPAN>
<SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"world"</SPAN>
<SPAN class="kw3">print</SPAN> <SPAN class="st0">"<SPAN class="es0">\n</SPAN>"</SPAN>
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