From: John Woods <jqwoods@...>
Date: 2008-02-23T04:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorry very newbie post!

Try using what\'s (single-quote) instead of what\`s (back-tick).

Unless you want to print out a back-tick instead of single-quote, in 
which case, you could just remove the back-slash.

So in the first case, you would do this:

   puts 'Hi, what\'s your first name? '

In the second case, you would do this:

   puts 'Hi, what`s your first name? '

Hope that helps some.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve
Sent: 02/22/2008 10:30 AM
> Ok so I just got myself Chris Pines book and started with the
> questions in it and the first short prog I type in SciTE is
> 
> puts 'Hi, what\`s your first name? '
> name = gets
> puts 'your name is ' + name
> 
> save it and run and get a command box which waits for me to exit and
> then get the message
> H what\`s your first name?
> Exit code: -1073741510
> eh??. Not looking good!. (Tried it with RDE and even the `i` was
> missing in that one?) . Chris wrote the book using Ruby version 1.8.2
> and I`m using 186-26 which is probably where the fault lies anyone
> suggest me where I`m going wrong please?
> Thanks
> Steve
> 
> 
>