From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T14:25:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7196] Re: Put slash as last character in string?

"Chris Morris" <chrismo@homemail.com> writes:

> How can I have a string with a single backslash as the last character?
> 
>   "c:\temp\\"         => "c:\temp\\"

Just like that. If you're using irb to check it out, then you'll get
slightly misleading output, as irb by default uses #inspect to display 
strings, and #inspect escapes special characters. Thus even though the 
string has just one '\', it is output by irb with two.

     irb(main):006:0> "abc\\"
     "abc\\"
     irb(main):007:0> conf.inspect_mode = nil
     Switch to non inspect mode.
     false
     irb(main):008:0> "abc\\"
     abc\


Regards


Dave