frank-mcauleys-macbook:~ frankmcauley$ irb >> puts "Hello\nWorld" Hello World => nil >> puts "Hello\bWorld" HellWorld => nil >> puts "Hello\010World" HellWorld => nil >> puts "Hello\tWorld" Hello World => nil
ruby 1.8.6 On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:30 AM, miga <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 14, 12:08 pm, Frank McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> In a Mac I ran the following from the irb: >> puts "Hello""\n""World" >> Hello >> World >> Maybe it is a NetBeans thing? > It's more a Terminal thing at least on Mac, features of readlines or > not, and utf-8 or not. > On mine, Mac OS X 10.4.11, ruby 1.8.7, if I type in the Terminal, in > irb: > puts "Hello\010World" > it returns: > HellWorld > > It works the same in jirb_swing, so I guess it would work the same in > Netbeans. The \b version does not work in any of irb, jirb_swing, > Netbeans. > > That means they do not understand \b, but thet understand the > corresponding utf-8 escape sequence. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
