From: Tadeusz Bochan <lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-29T07:31:11+09:00
Subject: AAARRRRGH! s="#$" => SyntaxError: compile error

Hi.
I get the following error from the following statement :
s="#$"

irb(main):001:0> s="#$"
SyntaxError: (irb):1: unterminated string meets end of file
        from C:/Ruby200/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
(A similar response from 1.8.6 on HPUX.)

Also,

irb(main):011:0> s="#$!"
=> ""

Something is broken. Does anyone know whats going on with this ?

s="#"+"$" and s="#\$" work ok, but that does not help when the
string occurs in data which goes into eval.

Also, this is not good
irb(main):008:0> s=("xxxxxx.....#$yyyyyyyyy")
=> "xxxxxx....."

Is there a fundamental problem with the Ruby parser ?
or is this just an isolated glitch ?

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