From: "Sandor Szücs" <sandor.szuecs@...>
Date: 2009-01-24T01:14:37+09:00
Subject: Re: quoting problem with %x


On 23.01.2009, at 01:58, Will Parsons wrote:

> How do I get the output from this within ruby?  If I run:
>
>  %x[progname -o 'something with spaces']
>
> the single quotes get lost and the result is as if
> "progname -o something with spaces" had been invoked.
>
> Attempting to escape the quotes like:
>
>  %x[progname -o \'something with spaces\']
>
> doesn't help.  Can someone enlighten me on how this can be done?

 >> %x[echo \'bla\']
=> "bla\n"
 >> %x[echo \\'bla\\']
=> "'bla'\n"

Try it in irb and you will see what you get.

Regards, Sandor Szücs
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