From: Alvaro Perez <alvaro.pmartinez@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T01:28:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Double quote escape character

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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

that´s very interesting, I had already notice that p and puts work 
differently, i'll search about that #inspect thing...

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