From: Jack Smith Date: 2008-10-07T00:29:22+09:00 Subject: Printing varible with quotes around it I am trying to print my variable in a puts statment but add quotes around it. This works but does not put quotes around my text: z = "This is my text" puts z I have tried puts %Q!z! and puts '"#{z}"' but I can't seem to get my text to print out like: "This is my text" thanks John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.