From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T09:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Escaping special characters in array of strings

"Gene Kahn" <jenjhiz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Because of the embedded single quote, this statement does not work.
>
> %w[it's you're they're]
>
> Escaping it with the backslash does not work either:
>
> %w[it\'s you\'re they\'re]

What version of Ruby are you using?

ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

irb(main):001:0> %w[it's you're they're]
=> ["it's", "you're", "they're"]
irb(main):002:0> %w[it\'s you\'re they\'re]
=> ["it\\'s", "you\\'re", "they\\'re"]