From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@...>
Date: 2011-01-30T11:19:27+09:00
Subject: Re: going onto a new line

Excerpts from Dan L.'s message of Sun Jan 30 03:06:24 +0100 2011:
> ok i am quite new to ruby and i am only 14 so.... any way i am
> struggling to get my test to go onto a new line here is the code i put
> in (if you could copy and paste the code then make the changes in the
> reply that would be great):
>      print("**uh.....**")
>      sleep 1.5
>      print("**were am I?**")
> 

There are many ways. The most simple is this:

print "ath
"
print "ath
"

This will use the new line character from the source file.
However usually you use string quoting:

1.upto(10).each { |dummy| print "test\n" }

the \ gives the next character a special meaning. Here its 'n'.

Marc Weber