Thomas Sawyer wrote: > On Dec 7, 11:26pm, Jon Kim <viashi... / hanmail.net> wrote: >> www.google.com => 123.123.123.12www.ibm.com => 123.112.123.12www.iowahawkeyes => 123.123.112.12 >> >> original code was >> >> puts (dns + " => " + ip) >> >> I tried next code >> >> puts (dns + " "*(20 - dns.length) + " = > " + ip) >> >> but it did not work well. please teach me how to do it. > > "%-30s %s" % [dns, ip] Thomas's suggestion of String Format (%) is correct, just revising example to reflect the original code above. puts "%-20s => %s" % [dns, ip] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.