From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2011-11-01T06:17:05+09:00
Subject: Re: single vs. double quotes (was: Anything like FS in Ruby?)

Because that is how Ruby (and also Perl) work. Strings inside ' are
litteral and strings inside " are interpolated.

This might sound a little rude but have you read any books on Ruby or
worked through any of the tutorials?

On 31 October 2011 21:12, Wayne Brissette <waynefb@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks everybody. It's just a matter of rethinking things, but the Justin you were spot on. The record separator was exactly what I was thinking about (or something similar actually).
>
> I figured out why my parsing of data wasn't going so well. Maybe somebody can point me to better documentation on why this happens.
>
> If I do this:
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> myarray = somestring.split('\n\n')
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> My array ends up with a single item
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> If I do this:
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> myarray = somestring.split("\n\n")
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> my array ends up with the breaks exactly where I expected them and I end up with multiple items in my array.
>
> so, why is " not equal to ' in this instance?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
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