From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-11-18T07:58:35+09:00
Subject: Re: String escape mystery.

On Nov 17, 2007 5:52 PM, Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> > --
> > Rick DeNatale
> >
> > My blog on Ruby
> > http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
>
> 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?


No it was just a brain fart on my part.


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