From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T10:00:08+09:00
Subject: Escaping characters

I don't understand this.


irb(main):002:0> '\''
=> "'"
irb(main):003:0> '\\'
=> "\\"
irb(main):004:0>


I know the backslash escapes a character, so in the first line, I escape
the quote so it will return a string that is a single quote, but in the
second one I would expect it to return "\", instead it returns "\\" both
backslashes, and I only want one of them. My actual problem looks like
this:

irb(main):004:0> "(G\\D01=Name~\D02=1234~\\"
=> "(G\\D01=Name~D02=1234~\\"

The string that is returned is wrong,but if I do
irb(main):005:0> "(G\\D01=Name~\\D02=1234~\\"
=> "(G\\D01=Name~\\D02=1234~\\"

the string that is returned is still wrong.


~Jeremy
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