# Ljust and rjust broken on OSX

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 29, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106 "2005-11-29T23:26:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin.dufort)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106/1 "2005-11-29T23:26:39Z")

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ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]  
tripus% irb  
irb(main):001:0\> “test”.rjust(5,“x”)  
=\> " test"  
irb(main):002:0\> “test”.ljust(5, “x”)  
=\> "test "

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**Author:** ![martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin.dufort)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106/2 "2005-11-29T23:34:44Z")

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On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:22 PM, kleinman wrote:

> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]  
> ^^^^^^^^^^

That’s not 1.8.2, 1.8.2 was released 2004-12-25

> tripus% irb  
> irb(main):001:0\> “test”.rjust(5,“x”)  
> =\> " test"  
> irb(main):002:0\> “test”.ljust(5, “x”)  
> =\> "test "

$ ruby182-orig -v  
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]  
$ ruby182-orig -e ‘p “test”.rjust(5, “x”)’  
“xtest”  
$ ruby182-orig -e ‘p “test”.ljust(5, “x”)’  
“testx”  
$ ruby183 -v  
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]  
$ ruby183 -e ‘p “test”.ljust(5, “x”)’  
“testx”  
$ ruby183 -e ‘p “test”.rjust(5, “x”)’  
“xtest”

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://segment7.net](http://segment7.net)  
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**Author:** ![martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin.dufort)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106/3 "2005-11-30T02:20:16Z")

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Thanks Eric. Your reply prompted me to see how many ruby were installed  
on my PB.

## Seems I had 2: /local/bin/ruby /bin/ruby

tripus% ./bin/ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]  
tripus% ./bin/ruby -e ‘p “test”.rjust(5,“x”)’  
“xtest”

## tripus% ./local/bin/ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0] tripus% ./local/bin/ruby -e ‘p “test”.rjust(5,“x”)’ " test"

No idea where the second one is coming from.  
Thanks for the feedback - Martin

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**Author:** ![martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@martin.dufort](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin.dufort)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ljust-and-rjust-broken-on-osx/49106/4 "2005-11-30T22:15:06Z")

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On Nov 29, 2005, at 14:31, Eric H. wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:22 PM, kleinman wrote:
> 
> > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]  
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That’s not 1.8.2, 1.8.2 was released 2004-12-25

It is 1.8.2. It’s a pre-release. I spent a lot of time trying to figure  
out why things didn’t work the way they were supposed to until I found  
out I had “the other 1.8.2”, and I needed to upgrade my install of  
1.8.2 to 1.8.2.

Mutter mutter fume.