From: Wayne Brissette <waynefb@...>
Date: 2011-11-01T06:37:51+09:00
Subject: Re: single vs. double quotes (was: Anything like FS in Ruby?)


On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Peter Hickman wrote:

> 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?

Peter: 

Yes on both accounts (and I don't consider it rude that you asked/suggested). However, this is the first time I've run into this problem and I suspect that's because most of the books/tutorials/examples out there don't go into details on this particular subject. Coming from a language where you couldn't interchange single and double quotes in 99% of the situations, I was simply caught off-guard. Thanks for your explanation.

Wayne