From: Aldric Giacomoni Date: 2009-12-30T06:01:41+09:00 Subject: "Inconsistency" with display/existence of "\" Basically, two ... Apparently similar objects give me the following differing output: [3\] and [3] I pasted most of it up on pastie so it became a bit more readable. I am taking a text file and reading it like so: File.open(filename, 'r') { |f| @sgf = f.read } It then gets split into an array of single characters. Here is the rest, though I'm afraid it may not make much sense. http://pastie.org/760500 The gist of it is ... Why would a backslash "disappear" ? I mean, the files are going through the same code and getting parsed the same way! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.