From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T18:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: 'ab\c' and 'ab\\c'


From: "Max Williams" <toastkid.williams@gmail.com>
>
>>> "ab\ca"
> => "ab\001"
>>> "ab\cb"
> => "ab\002"
>>> "ab\cA"
> => "ab\001"
>>> "ab\cz"
> => "ab\032"
> 
> I'm quite intrigued by this as well.

control characters.

puts "\cG"

...should beep.

puts "\cH"

...should backspace.

puts "boolean\cH\cH\cH\cHbies"

...is left as an exercise for the reader.  ;)


Regards,

Bill