From: Eyal Oren <eyal.oren@...>
Date: 2007-02-21T19:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: interpolation of escaped characters in strings

On Feb 20, 6:23 pm, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> Looks like you want something close to String#inspect.
>    puts "foo\tbar\n".inspect # -> "foo\tbar\n"

no, that doesn't work. what I would like is that puts would actually
print a tab and a newline, instead of \t and \n.

E.g. a = 'test\nbreak'. Then "puts a.inspect" doesn't actually print a
line break, it prints the  characters '\n'. I would like to transform
"a" into a string that really includes a linebreak instead of the
characters '\n'.

Does anybody know how to do it, without eval or a manually crafted
gsub?