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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Hash Methods

SY LOC
SY LOC
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SY LOC
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hash.inspect

What does 'hash.inspect' do again? Why do we need it. If I just type, 'puts "Hash: #{hash}". It does the same thing.

1 Answer

Tom Sager
Tom Sager
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Tom Sager
Tom Sager
18,987 Points

hash.inspect returns a string, and you can do anything you want with it, e.g. hash_as_string = hash.inspect

puts "#{hash}" prints the hash and returns null.

Tom Sager
Tom Sager
18,987 Points
Tom Sager
Tom Sager
18,987 Points

Can you please vote this answer up, or perhaps 'best answer'? Thanks!