From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T18:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid hex escape for '\x'

Hi,

In message "Re: invalid hex escape for '\x'"
    on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:28:57 +0900, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> writes:

|I just used '\x' in both 1.8 and 1.9. In 1.8, this is just a string
|of two characters. In 1.9, I also expected this, but I got
|"invalid hex escape". I'd very much expect this for "\x", but
|I didn't expect hex escapes to suddenly work in single-quoted strings.

Which version (revision) did you use?  My Ruby gives me two characters.

%cat x.rb
p '\x'
%ruby x.rb
ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-21 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
"\\x"

I use r14428 on trunk.

							matz.