From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-31T16:56:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23923] Re: question about string interpolation and '#{}'

In article <QFND7.49483$Sl.2072909@sjcpnn01.usenetserver.com>,
Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote:
>I think I'm really trying to do some strange things with string 
>interpolation and I'm not sure if what I want to do is completly 
>possible...
>
[snip]
>
>I'm not sure why this is changing the outcome.  I would think that the 
>parser, as called by eval, should be able to handle the newlines just as it 
>does in a regular ruby program.  What am I missing?

Oh, I think the '/n's in the string are not interpolated and end up 
looking like regex's: 'blah  /n   ..blah.. /n...'
Part of the problem can be solved by doing: 
eval filestring.inspect.gsub(/\\n/,"\n")

PHil