From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2003-09-18T00:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: #{} and \" don't like each other

In article <20030916222932.A81108@freeze.org>,
Jim Freeze  <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
>On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at  7:12:16 +0900, Peter wrote:
>>   name = "peter"
>>   print "<user #{"name=\"" + name + "\""}></user>"
>> 
>
>When I see a line like this, my first question is why not
>write it like:
>
>   print "<user name=\"#{name}\"></user>"
>
>It looks cleaner and avoids all the hassle and confusion.

What about using %Q to pick your own delimieters e.g.

  print %Q{<user name="#{name}" />}

I try to avoid \ wherever possible.

Hope this helps,

Mike


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