From: Tadeusz Bochan <lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-29T23:55:19+09:00
Subject: Re: AAARRRRGH! s="#$" => SyntaxError: compile error

josh-cheek wrote : why do you want to eval "ABC\267\#$"? It is not valid 
Ruby
Hi Josh,
Basicaly, I need an un-inspect method.
ie., data == data.inspect.uninspect

This snippet may help clarify :

line=DATA.read
p eval '"'+line+'"'
__END__
abc#\101xyz#$

this fails - the expected output would be abc#Axyz#$

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