From: Martin Krischik <krischik@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T15:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: command interpretation

Brian Candler schrieb:

> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:45:05PM +0900, Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Background: I use ruby on the vms operating system and I want to run the 
>> following test command:
>>
>>  x = �WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$TRNLNM("SOURCE")�
>>
>> But all I get is:
>>
>> test.ruby:8: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
>> test.ruby:8: parse error
>>  x = �WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$TRNLNM("SOURCE")�
>>                         ^
>> From which I deduct that some "magic" is done with the $ character 
>> which I don't want.
> 
> In the mail you sent, I saw character \264 (octal) where there should be a
> backtick. A backtick is \140 (octal), \x60 (hex), 96 (decimal)

Another good reason to retire back ticks.

> Have you tried using %x(...) instead?

Indeed that works - thanks!

Martin
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Martin Krischik