From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-04-17T05:26:59+09:00
Subject: Re: how to avoid escaping special chars after backslah in string

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jan E. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote in post #1056724:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Lucky Nl <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>>> Roger Pack wrote in post #1056378:
>>>> so what's your ideal syntax here?
>>>
>>> i want to return string whatever i have given without escaping chars
>>> followed by slash.So can we do anything that slash also consider as a
>>> char like * in my example
>>
>> Escape the backslash:
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> puts 'a\\b'
>> a\b
>
> Well, the problem is he doesn't want to. He rather wants the backslash
> not to be an escape character (but it seems he doesn't want to use the
> heredoc syntax either).
>
> I'd say this is an impossible request. ;-)

Absolutely.  Thats's why I reinforced the proper solution. :-)

> Even if you *did* make the backslash a normal character (by messing with
> the parser or whatever), there would still have to be an escape syntax
> -- with the exact same "problems" like the backslash.

Exactly.

Kind regards

robert


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