From: Paul Brennan <paul.brennan@...>
Date: 2012-08-13T20:10:44+09:00
Subject: Re: meaning of @variable@?

Paul Brennan wrote in post #1072189:
> Because it's a string, and in single quotes, surely it would be taken 
> literally and any instance of @vraiable@ in aaa would be replaced with 
> whatever is in the current variable
>
> Yule;

what is that '@' in both ends?


Just that, an @ character. So 
aaa = 'This is a string @variable@ blah blah blah'
current = 'XXXX
aaa.gsub!('@variable@', current)
aaa
==> 'This is a string XXXX blah blah blah'

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