inspect()
public
Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of
obj. If not overridden, uses the to_s method to generate the string.
[ 1, 2, 3..4, 'five' ].inspect
Time.new.inspect
/*
* call-seq:
* obj.inspect => string
*
* Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of
* <i>obj</i>. If not overridden, uses the <code>to_s</code> method to
* generate the string.
*
* [ 1, 2, 3..4, 'five' ].inspect #=> "[1, 2, 3..4, \"five\"]"
* Time.new.inspect #=> "Wed Apr 09 08:54:39 CDT 2003"
*/
static VALUE
rb_obj_inspect(obj)
VALUE obj;
{
if (TYPE(obj) == T_OBJECT
&& ROBJECT(obj)->iv_tbl
&& ROBJECT(obj)->iv_tbl->num_entries > 0) {
VALUE str;
size_t len;
char *c;
c = rb_obj_classname(obj);
if (rb_inspecting_p(obj)) {
len = strlen(c)+10+16+1;
str = rb_str_new(0, len); /* 10:tags 16:addr 1:nul */
snprintf(RSTRING(str)->ptr, len, "#<%s:0x%lx ...>", c, obj);
RSTRING(str)->len = strlen(RSTRING(str)->ptr);
return str;
}
len = strlen(c)+6+16+1;
str = rb_str_new(0, len); /* 6:tags 16:addr 1:nul */
snprintf(RSTRING(str)->ptr, len, "-<%s:0x%lx", c, obj);
RSTRING(str)->len = strlen(RSTRING(str)->ptr);
return rb_protect_inspect(inspect_obj, obj, str);
}
return rb_funcall(obj, rb_intern("to_s"), 0, 0);
}