From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T23:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Can not  puts '\c' in irb

> Ronald Fischer wrote:
> > irb 0.9.5 for Windows:
> > 
> > irb(main):016:0> puts '\c'
> > irb(main):017:0'
> > 
> > i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?
> > 
> > Ronald Fischer
> 
> What about
> 
> puts "\\c"

This works, but that's not the point. The fact is that
puts '\c' works inside a Ruby program, but does not work
within irb.

Does anyone know whether this this a known limiation of irb, or a bug?

Ronald
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