From: Richard Lionheart <NoOne@...>
Date: 2005-11-20T09:47:22+09:00
Subject: Trailing \ in %q[\a\b\c\] not treated as literal???

Hi,

I ran the following on a WinXP/SP2 machine:

F:\>ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

F:\>ruby -e "puts %q[\a\b\c]"
\a\b\c

F:\>ruby -e "puts %q[\a\b\c\]"
-e:1: unterminated string meets end of file

F:\>

It seems to me the last \ shouldn't need to be escaped as \\, though that 
does work.  What's up?

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TIA,
Richard