From: Alan Burch <orotone@...>
Date: 2006-03-11T15:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: backslash in quotes

itsme213 wrote:
> Why is \ the same as \\ in the 1st 2 cases, but not in the 3rd?
> 
> irb(main):001:0> 'c:\a\b'
> => "c:\\a\\b"
> irb(main):002:0> 'c:\a\\b'
> => "c:\\a\\b"
> irb(main):004:0> 'c:\a\b\'
> irb(main):005:0'
> 
> Thanks.

I'm new here, but I can answer this one.  In the last one you are 
escaping your single ' mark and so are not terminating the string.  Do 
you mean 'c:\a\b\\' or do you want 'c:\a\b\'' ?  To ruby it looks like 
you want to embed a \n in the string and adding another ' and <cr> will 
complete it.
Alan

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