From: "Thomas B." <tpreal@...>
Date: 2008-10-07T00:59:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing varible with quotes around it

Jack Smith wrote:
> 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

You get this result if you use p instead of puts. But there's also one 
great thing to remember: what p does is in fact:

def p(x) # I skipped the multiple argument variant for simplicity
  puts x.inspect
end

The function inspect is also used when irb presents results of last 
operation after the => sign, so you can also do this with arrays, hashes 
and all other types of objects, if you want to print them in a nice way, 
with all dangerous characters escaped and so on.

TPR.
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