From: "RAMUBECSE2003@... (RAAMU MSRK)" Date: 2012-06-13T00:54:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:45586] [Backport93 - Backport #6579][Open] Does InteractiveRuBy (IRB) identify newlines embedded in String literals enclosed in double quotes? Issue #6579 has been reported by RAMUBECSE2003@GMAIL.COM (RAAMU MSRK). ---------------------------------------- Backport #6579: Does InteractiveRuBy (IRB) identify newlines embedded in String literals enclosed in double quotes? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6579 Author: RAMUBECSE2003@GMAIL.COM (RAAMU MSRK) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: Ruby version: ============= /usr/local/bin/ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux] Statements/Expressions executed in IRB: ======================================= irb(main):011:0> "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" => "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" irb(main):012:0> authors = "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" => "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" irb(main):013:0> authors => "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" However a script file residing in my home directory /home/raamumsrk/Programming Ruby/Practice.rb does output each string terminated by an embedded new-line. 1 #! /usr/local/bin/ruby 2 3 # Author Raamu Mohan Srinivasan Radha Krishnan 4 5 authors = "Yukihiro Matsumoto\nDave Thomas\nAndy Hunt\nChad Fowler" 6 7 puts authors ruby ./Programming' 'Ruby/Practice.rb Yukihiro Matsumoto Dave Thomas Andy Hunt Chad Fowler -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/