From: "Suraj N. Kurapati" <skurapat@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T13:27:21+09:00
Subject: Re: short hand %w

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Corey wrote:
> Corey wrote:
>> how come when i do this m = %w[cat [dog dog] mouse] and then request
>> m[1] instead of giving me ["dog", "dog"] it gives me "[dog"
>>
>> do i have to use the shorthand %w for the inner array too?
> 
> i tride it on the inner array and it return %w"[dog" so that doesnt 
> work, the %w doesnt seem to work accros the board the way i thought it 
> would.

As mentioned a few weeks ago on this list, you must escape
whitespace within a single "word" using backslashes (a convention of
UNIX shells, AFAIK):

irb(main):003:0> %w(cat dog\ dog mouse)
=> ["cat", "dog dog", "mouse"]

irb(main):004:0> %w(cat dog\ dog mouse this\ is\ \ \ a\ long\ phrase)
=> ["cat", "dog dog", "mouse", "this is   a long phrase"]
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