This appears to be a "feature" of the NetBeans output window; when I run the same commands through "irb" in a terminal window, I see the expected result
HellWorld World but when I try the same in the NetBeans window, I get Hello World Hello World I am using the NetBeans 7.0M1 beta, and Ruby 1.9 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Mark Almeida srividya kannan wrote: > Hi > I was going through the ruby_basics.pdf file. Page 28 in the pdf shows > some examples on using escape sequences. > I tried them in Netbeans IDE 6.5.1 and found that backspace and > carriage return are not giving the desired output. > My statements are > puts "Hello\bWorld" > puts "Hello\rWorld" > > And i expected to see > HellWorld > Hello > World > > But the actual outcome was > Hello World > HelloWorld > > Wondering whats wrong!!! > > Thanks > Shree > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
