From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2012-08-13T23:19:05+09:00
Subject: Re: meaning of @variable@?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Paul Brennan <paul.brennan@ahc.uk.com> wrote:
> 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'

To expand on this -- probably @ has some meaning like "the enclosed
string should be replaced with a value" in whatever program Ajay is
working with. But it doesn't mean anything to Ruby itself.