From: Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02@...>
Date: 2007-12-18T02:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslashes in Command Line Arguments

> No, it's because you are using p instead of puts.
> 
> The p method prints the result of sending the inspect message to its
> argument, and String#inspect produces a what ruby string literal to
> represent the string looks like, and since \ is the escape character
> in ruby string literals it needs to be escaped itself in the  output
> of inspect.
> 
> --
> Rick DeNatale

I purposely used p instead of puts for that exact reason.  Which is how 
I noticed that if you send "\n" Ruby does not get a newline character, 
it gets a backslash n literal.

Joe
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