From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T17:26:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23926] Re: question about string interpolation and '#{}'

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23924] Re: question about string interpolation and '#{}'


> In article <005501c161e0$3b6f4100$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>,
> Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
> >Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> >To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:36 AM
> >Subject: [ruby-talk:23918] question about string interpolation and '#{}'
> >
> >
> >> 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...
> >
> >Probably a silly question on my part... it's 1:46 am in my timezone --
> >but why are you doing eval str.inspect rather than just eval str?
> >
>
> Good question.  Because not all of the stuff in the strings to be eval'ed
> is Ruby code, only the stuff between #{ and }.

How about something like this:

s2 = str.gsub(/"/, '\"')
s3 = '"'+s2+'"'
eval s3

Hal