From: Nathan Clark <tokenshift@...>
Date: 2010-12-30T09:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: how can i include a double quote in a string

> i need to a include a double quote in a string without it being escaped.
> For example
>
> astring="first few characters"
> bstring="last characters"
>
> When i tried
>   newstring = astring + '"' + bstring + '"'
>
> newstring ended up as 'first few characters\"last characters\"'
>
> What trick can i use to obtain a string 'first few characters "last
> characters"' out of the 2 string variables.  That is for ruby not to
> escaped the double quote.
>
> Thanks in advance.

irb> newstring
=> "first few characters\"last characters\""
irb> puts newstring
first few characters"last characters"
=> nil

The quotation marks aren't actually escaped, they're just shown that
way on inspection to differentiate them from the quotation marks
delimiting the entire string.