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Agata
Agata

Reputation: 87

Ruby: strings concated with "\n" returned in one line

I have this code:

def rectangle
  "|------------------|\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|                  |\n" +
  "|------------------|\n"
  end

and I want to refactor it. But for some reason, if I try to concat/merge the strings in any other way "\n" stops working, and it's returned in one line.

def rectangle
    a = "|------------------|\n"
    b = "|                  |\n"
    a + b + a
end

I tried using

System.getProperty("line.separator", "\n")

as suggested in similar posts, but it's not helpful (or I'm not doing it right). It's part of my course. Feels like I'm missing something obvious.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 130

Answers (1)

idej
idej

Reputation: 5664

A simple example is:

def rectangle
  a = "|#{'-' * 10}|"
  b = "|#{' ' * 10}|"
  ([a] + [b] * 5 + [a]).join("\n")
end

puts rectangle

Upvotes: 2

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