From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-11-09T05:17:09+09:00
Subject: Re: String Problems?

Alle Saturday 08 November 2008, Carter Davis ha scritto:
> whenever I use
> puts to output a string, the string is in quotes.
...
> I'll type in, for example,
>
> p "You see a glass cup, and there is a door NORTH.\n There is also a
> long hallway SOUTH."
>

You aren't using puts, you're using p, which is a different thing. puts calls 
to_s on its arguments, while p calls inspect. In the case of strings, to_s 
gives a human-readable text, while inspect returns a version with all special 
characters escaped. For example:

s = "You see a glass cup, and there is a door NORTH.\n There is also a
long hallway SOUTH."
s.to_s

gives

You see a glass cup, and there is a door NORTH.
There is also a long hallway SOUTH.

while

s.inspect

gives

"You see a glass cup, and there is a door NORTH.\n There is also along hallway 
SOUTH."

which is want you get. Replace p with puts and it should work as you want.

I hope this helps

Stefano