From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T18:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: new line in string

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Sharanya Suresh <sharankruthi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to concatenate new line character to a string?
>
> Eg: str = "hello";
>    str += '\n';
>    str += "world"
> I must get
> hello
> world
> How it can be done?

You nearly got it:

str = "hello";
str += "\n";
str += "world"

You just need to use double quotes. Single quotes don't interpret
special characters:

irb(main):006:0> "\n".size
=> 1
irb(main):007:0> '\n'.size
=> 2

Hope this helps,

Jesus.