From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T05:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Python to Ruby: Two puzzlements...

James Edward Gray II wrote:

>> (does this mean there's a %qq() and %qx() as
>> well?),
> 
> Sure:
> 
> %w{...}            Array from whitespace split, spaces can be escaped  
> to ignore
> %W{...}            as above, but with double quoted String subs like # 
> {...}
> %q{...}            single quoted String
> %Q{...} or %{...}  double quoted String
> %x{...}            shell command

Hm, and also %s for symbols. (Rarely used, though.)

Oh, and %-a- and similar is the same as %q-a- so %() is an empty string 
-- probably better to be explicit and add the q, though.