From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T13:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby split not working properly


On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Scott Macri <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to run the following command in irb on a mac:
> 
> something.split('\')

Try

   something.split('\\')


The backslash is used to escape special characters.  In your case to
encode a single quote in the string rather than terminating the string
literal.

IRB is behaving funny because it thinks the string is incomplete, it is
looking for a closing single quote.

The double-backslash encodes as a single backslash in the string.

Gary Wright