From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <jeffp@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T08:38:01+09:00
Subject: Re: strings embedded inside strings

[posted & mailed]

On Feb 19, Paul Brannan said:

>I've seen this on the ML before, but searching the ruby-talk archives I
>don't see a good answer.
>
>I want to do this:
>
>  puts "#{"'"}"

That's why Ruby offers %q and %qq.

  puts "#{ %q(') }"

I'm sure your case is a bit more complicated, but anyway.

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