From: Kevin Smith <kevins14@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T16:54:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7203] 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.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that should be:
"c:\\temp\\", unless you really want a tab after the colon.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that you could instead use:
'c:\temp\', since ' ' strings don't expand escape sequences.

Finally, in almost all cases, Windows is fine with forward slashes. In code, I almost never use \ any more.

Kevin