From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T01:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Double quote escape character

On 8/16/07, Alvaro Perez <alvaro.pmartinez@gmail.com> wrote:
> It�s a bit strange this.
>
> On my irb:
>
> irb(main):053:0> p "\"hello\""
> "\"hello\""

puts "\"hello\"" # => "hello"
puts "\"\"hello\"\"" # => ""hello""

p uses #inspect, which usually escapes certain values. IRB uses #inspect, too.

-austin
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