From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-23T19:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: %w| a b c| %w_a b c_ %w<a b c> all work


David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
>
> > %w|a b c|
> >
> > %w_a b c_
> >
> > %w<a b c>
> >
> > all work
> > is there an official doc or book that says so?
> >
> > seems like the first character that after "%w" can be used as a
> > delimiter.
>
> Pretty much, though some characters won't work. My favorite % trick
> is:
>
>    ruby -e 'p %q abc '
>    "abc"
>
> :-)

I enjoy doing this:

irb(main):002:0> %w) foo bar)
=> ["foo", "bar"]