http://snipplr.com/language/ruby/tags/format Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:48:36 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3408/format-strings-like-print-using/ This is an extension to Ruby's String class. Just put this code in a file and include it. This basically takes a string and adds literals and padding to it. For example, you can format a phone number with optional area code like this: "5445556747".using('(###) ###-####', '', true) => (544) 555-6747

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