From: Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02@...>
Date: 2007-12-18T02:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslashes in Command Line Arguments

> It does get a newline character...try looking at "\n"[0] (or if you're
> using 1.9, "\n".ord)...you'll notice it's the ascii ordinal 10...aka
> "newline". That was Robert's point. #inspect (and by proxy #p)
> represent non-printing characters as their escaped symbols so that you
> can actually see them. Try entering this in irb and notice the
> difference betwen the input string and that printed by #p...
> 

It seems both of you have missed the point of my question.  The input is 
coming into Ruby from the Command Line.

Of course "\n"[0] is going to be a newline... IT is a newline.  But if 
you read the above posts you will see what I was talking about:

$ ruby example.rb "\n"

Does not result in YOUR "\n", it results in "\\n" which was part of MY 
problem, which Sebastian showed me how to solve.

I know I have the literal string referring to a Backslash N and not a 
Newline because I used #p...

"\n"  #=> newline
"\\n" #=> backslash n
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