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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Build a Grocery List Program: Part 2

Paulo Moreira
Paulo Moreira
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Posted by Paulo Moreira
Paulo Moreira
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Inspect Method

Hey everybody! I'm new to programming and to Ruby and still don´t get what the method ".inspect" stands for and when to use it.

Thanks for any replies!

1 Answer

mkmk
mkmk
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Use Ruby's inspect method to view the raw contents of a hash or string. (the keys and/or values)
Here it is in the documentation: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/Array.html#method-i-inspect