From: Junkone on
what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters
From: Ryan Davis on

On Jul 1, 2008, at 01:52 , Junkone wrote:

> what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
> find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters

%w doesn't have to do with sprintf afaik.

Maybe you mean this instead:

http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#12


From: Junkone on
On Jul 1, 5:08 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...(a)zenspider.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 01:52 , Junkone wrote:
>
> > what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
> > find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters
>
> %w doesn't have to do with sprintf afaik.
>
> Maybe you mean this instead:
>
> http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#12

in rails, this is how it create the options for select box.
<%= select(:rawdata, :symbol, %w{ AUD.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.GBP-
IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.JPY-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH GBP.USD-
IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CAD-IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CHF-IDEALPRO-CASH }) %>

what does the %w signify.
From: Frederick Cheung on

On 1 Jul 2008, at 10:22, Junkone wrote:

> On Jul 1, 5:08 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...(a)zenspider.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 01:52 , Junkone wrote:
>>
>>> what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
>>> find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters
>>
>> %w doesn't have to do with sprintf afaik.
>>
>> Maybe you mean this instead:
>>
>> http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#12
>
> in rails, this is how it create the options for select box.
> <%= select(:rawdata, :symbol, %w{ AUD.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.GBP-
> IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.JPY-IDEALPRO-CASH EUR.USD-IDEALPRO-CASH GBP.USD-
> IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CAD-IDEALPRO-CASH USD.CHF-IDEALPRO-CASH }) %>
>
> what does the %w signify.

Exactly what the link Ryan posted says. It creates an array by
splitting the string you give it.

Fred

From: Peña, Botp on
From: Junkone [mailto:junkone1(a)gmail.com]
# what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
# find the w attribute in sprintf flag characters

we may need a site search for ruby-doc, otherwise, nubies like me will have to look harder ;)

look for references to "array" in this page http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/language.html. you wont miss it.

hth. kind regards -botp