From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T10:32:02+09:00
Subject: Re: One line handies

From: "William James" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
>
> Bill Kelly wrote:
> > DOS (cmd.exe) will need the double- and single-quotes swapped:
> >
> > ruby -e "puts ENV['PATH'].downcase.split(/[:;]/).sort"
> 
> Did you try it without swapping the quotes?
> 
> Unlike awk, mawk, and gawk, Ruby under DOS accepts single quotes as
> argument wrappers.  However, if the string contains |, <, or >, then
> you had better use double quotes.

Whoa... !  Thanks.  Makes me wonder if that always been true,
even back when the standard Ruby distribution for windows was
cygwin based?  Or maybe I got so accustomed to

perl -e 'print "huzzah\n"'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

I never tried it on ruby!


Thanks,

Regards,

Bill