From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T20:37:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I get a '\'?

"J.Hawkesworth" <J.Hawkesworth@talis.com> writes:
> the memory stick but I can't find a way to get ruby to produce a single
> '\' character (which I need for specifiying subdirectories).
> 
> irb(main):041:0> p "\\"
> "\\"

You're being bitten by the fact that p uses inspect, and
String.inspect gives you a "displayable" representation of a string
that can be re-evalled back into ruby. 

"\\" does what you want: 

 %  ruby -e 'print "\\"'
\

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