From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T00:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Double quote escape character

On 8/16/07, Alvaro Perez <alvaro.pmartinez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think there is not problem at all as it seems that the FasterCSV class
> is the one who's erasing the double quotes while converting the strings
> to cvs.
>
> Anyway, it's still interesting to notice that there's no possible way to
> write in Ruby a string like this:
>
> ""hello""

Sure there is.

  '"hello"'
  '""hello""'
  "\"hello\""
  "\"\"hello\"\""
  %{"hello"}
  %{""hello""}
  <<-EOS
"hello"
""hello""
EOS

(Okay, that last one actually makes a multi-line string, but the point
remains the same.)

-austin
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