From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T18:26:46+09:00
Subject: Re: quote stripping in windows ruby.exe command line


Timothy Byrd wrote:
> Given this one-line Ruby script:
>
>     puts "ARGV[0] is #{ARGV[0]}"
>
> ruby.exe (1.8.2 on Windows)
>
>     [C:\] c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe argvtest.rb "quoted"
>     ARGV[0] is quoted
>
> Should ruby.exe be stripping the quotes?  How can I pass in a string
> with quotes?
>
> -- Timothy

ruby.exe argvtest.rb '"quoted"'

ruby.exe argvtest.rb "\"quoted\""