RedCloth: table with empty value

[Rodrigo Bermejo]

Hello List /.

I am trying to build a html table from a string using RedCloth.
My table should show some empty values
<code>

require 'redcloth'
table = RedCloth.new("|a|b|c|d|\n|A||c|d|").to_html
puts table
</code>
produces:
<table>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
<td>d</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A</td>
<td>c</td>
<td>d</td>
</tr>
</table>

Do you know how can I represent an empty value in a table ?
Thank you /.

 

[michael.c.morin]

Hello List /.

I am trying to build a html table from a string using RedCloth.
My table should show some empty values
<code>

require 'redcloth'
table = RedCloth.new("|a|b|c|d|\n|A||c|d|").to_html
puts table
</code>
produces:
<table>
                <tr>
                        <td>a</td>
                        <td>b</td>
                        <td>c</td>
                        <td>d</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                        <td>A</td>
                        <td>c</td>
                        <td>d</td>
                </tr>
</table>

Do you know how can I represent an empty value in a table ?
Thank you /.

Force empty cells to span 1 column with \1. In my test the cell
contains a space, if that's "empty" enough.

puts RedCloth.new("|a|b|c|d|\1|A||c|d|").to_html

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