From: "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
Date: 2008-07-18T14:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: generating webpages with Ruby... help with double quotes

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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 12:09 +0900, Zoe Phoenix wrote:

> I want a program that I'm working on to generate some web pages for me,
> but I'm having trouble with generating the pages in HTML, since it uses
> the double quotes for links, as in <a
> href="http://www.blahblahblah.com"></a>.



> Since there are a lot of the links in this page, I need to know what the
> best way to get around this problem is. Can someone help me, please?


Strings have a large number of different representations for precisely
this reason:


        "<a href=\"http://www.blahblahblah.com\">"  # double-quoted strings do interpolation and have a lot of \-escapes.
        '<a href="http://www.blahblahblah.com">'    # single-quoted strings don't do interpolation and only \-escape \ and '.
        %q{<a href="http://www.blahblahblah.com">}  # same as a single-quoted string, but ' isn't special
        %q|<a href="http://www.blahblahblah.com">|  # the delimiter doesn't have to be braces
        %Q{<a href="http://www.blahblahblah.com">}  # same as double-quoted-string, but " isn't special


Then there's "here documents" and the like, and there's other variants
of these in the facets gem.  Pick and choose the representation that
suits your needs best.  (In your case I'd likely recommend %Q{string
here}, %Q(string here) or even %Q|string here|.)


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