From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T18:23:06+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest::exists? Not Finding Windows Files with Spaces in Name

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:44 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> Dennis Mendelson wrote:
> > Should have mentioned that I have tried using double-quotes in the
> > following ways:
> >
> > "C:\Documents and Settings\test.txt"; and
> >
> >> puts "C:\Documents and Settings\test.txt"
>
> C:Documents and Settings        est.txt
> => nil
>
> Notice something?  You need double backslashes in double quotes.
> Alternatively use single quotes
>

Or just you forward slashes, the Ruby standard.