From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-11-18T07:52:14+09:00
Subject: Re: String escape mystery.

Rick Denatale wrote:
> I can't figure out what's happening here:
> 
> shadowfax:~ rick$ ruby -ve'p "a\b\c"'
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.10.2]
> -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file
> 
> shadowfax:~ rick$ ruby -e'p "a\b\\c"'
> "a\b\\c"
> 
> shadowfax:~ rick$ ruby -e'puts "a\b\\c"'
> \c
> shadowfax:~ rick$
> 
> What's up with \c in a string literal?
> 
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> 
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Hu?
I fail to see what exactly is your problem. \b is backspace, so the a 
becomes deleted in the output. In the inspect of course it still shows 
up. \\ is a literal \ and that is followed by a c, so "\\c" naturally 
prints as \c
Did I miss your point or so?

Regards
Stefan

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