From: Robert Klemme Date: 2007-07-27T15:46:56+09:00 Subject: Re: How to delete array element and add to previous element 2007/7/27, Morton Goldberg : > If you are showing here is intended to be Ruby code, it is simply bad > syntax. AFAIK, backslashes have no escape function outside of strings > [*] and regular expressions. There are also line continuations: RKlemme@padrklemme1 ~ $ ruby -e 'puts 1 > + 2' 1 RKlemme@padrklemme1 ~ $ ruby -e 'puts 1\ + 2' 3 Kind regards robert