What does the ' %s ' mean?

Rails
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Hi there,

can anyone explain to me how I have to understand the:

%s

in the following code line:

yield :error, “There was a problem resending your activation code,
please try again or %s.”, “resend_activation_path”

Whant does it stand for, what does it mean, what does it do?

Thanks!
Tom

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Tom Ha wrote:

yield :error, “There was a problem resending your activation code,
please try again or %s.”, “resend_activation_path”

Whant does it stand for, what does it mean, what does it do?

Google for “printf”, alone.

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2009/4/9 Tom Ha [email protected]

please try again or %s.", “resend_activation_path”

Whant does it stand for, what does it mean, what does it do?

I’m not familiar with that particular bit of code, but I think this
relates
to the “%” method for String classes in ruby. See
class String - RDoc Documentation .

This is ruby’s way of doing format control letters and modifiers. If
you’ve
programmed in C etc or something like awk, you often use these in print
statements (eg printf) to format strings and numbers etc.
Whenever I have to look these up I check out the gawk reference - here’s
one
online:

Simple example in ruby:

“foo%s” % “bar”
=> “foobar”

“foo%05d” % 1
=> “foo00001”

–
Daniel B.

http://blog.web17.com.au

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Thanks a lot!