From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-02-23T04:25:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorry very newbie post!

On Feb 22, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Steve wrote:

> 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? '
            what\'s
That \ is probably meant to escape the ' inside a string literal that  
uses ' for delimiters.

You can generally use either ' or " for string literals (the  
differences will be made clear later in the book).

Try:

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


I don't have any idea why the 'i' fails to show unless it perhaps  
isn't really an 'i'.  Did you cut-n-paste from somewhere else?  Might  
there be some other character around that 'i'?

-Rob

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