From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T20:14:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19964] Re: any ideas on why quoted parameters fail in mingw?

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody have any thoughts why
>
> c:\dev>ruby -e " \"3\" "
> -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file
>
> c:\dev>ruby19 -e " \"3\" "
> # works successfully
>
> might be occuring with mingw?  It appears to be either nuking the very
> lastmost position of the string or perhaps missing a null terminator:
>
> c:\dev>c:\ruby18\bin\ruby -e " \"3\" " \""\"
> -e:1: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting $end
>  "3" """"NAME=���
>             ^
>
> But it doesn't occur in 1.9
>
> Thoughts?

I'm still trying to see why this happens to you and nobody else :-)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (SP2)

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Luis@KEORE (D:\Users\Luis)
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mingw32]

Luis@KEORE (D:\Users\Luis)
$ ruby -e " \"3\" "

Luis@KEORE (D:\Users\Luis)
$ ruby -e " \"3\" " \""\"

(Just in case, my prompt was changed to mimic *nix, but is cmd.exe, not bash).

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