From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T07:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: submitting search term in quotation marks

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, roger99999 <rschoenm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Silly question but I can't seem to find the answer online. I'm
> submitting a search phrase in a scraper and I would like that to be in
> quotation marks. Because the sterm="****" is already in quotation
> marks in the code as:
>
> sterm = "United States"
>
>
> , I would have to do ""******"" and that generates an error. How does
> one do this?
> many thanks in advance and apologies for posting such basic questions!
> Roger
>
> The error I'm getting is the following.
>
> $ ruby article_parse_27feb2010.rb
> article_parse_27feb2010.rb:53: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT,
> expecting $end
>  sterm = " "Double Espresso with Whipped Cream" "

There are a few ways you can do it. If your string has double quotes
around it, you escape the embedded double quotes with a backslash,
thus "\"United States\"".

Or you can enclose your string in single quotes and use the double
quotes as-is (but not that this will not allow you to use #{...} or #$
or #@ inside the string).

Finally, you can do as Jesus said, and use %q followed by the string
enclosed in some delimiters like { }, ( ), [ ], etc.; you can actually
even use single non-alphanumeric delimiters like | |, as long as they
match (and aren't used inside the string itself).