Custom format specifiers

Kevin Olbrich · Sep 19, 2006

Ruby has bunch of nifty shortcuts like

%W{}, %r{}, etc...

Is there any way to define a new one, or are these hard-wired?

_Kevin
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Hal Fulton · Sep 19, 2006

Kevin said:
Ruby has bunch of nifty shortcuts like

%W{}, %r{}, etc...

Is there any way to define a new one, or are these hard-wired?

They're hard-wired... but there has been some discussion
of customized ones.

Hal

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