Can not puts '\c' in irb

[Ronald Fischer]

irb 0.9.5 for Windows:

irb(main):016:0> puts '\c'
irb(main):017:0'

i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?

In case someone has a more recent release of irb, does this still=20
occur in the newer one?=20

Ronald Fischer

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[Lloyd Linklater]

irb 0.9.5 for Windows:

irb(main):016:0> puts '\c'
irb(main):017:0'

i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?

Ronald Fischer

What about

puts "\\c"

 

[Ari Brown]

You need to use double quotes " " instead of single quotes ' '
because you're dealing with an escape sequence (I assume).

But this is just my random guess at the solution to your problem...
so..... keep it ruby

irb 0.9.5 for Windows:

irb(main):016:0> puts '\c'
irb(main):017:0'

i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?

In case someone has a more recent release of irb, does this still
occur in the newer one?

Ronald Fischer

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~Ari
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it" --1337est
man alive

 

[Ronald Fischer]

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What about
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puts "\\c"

This works, but that's not the point. The fact is that
puts '\c' works inside a Ruby program, but does not work
within irb.

Does anyone know whether this this a known limiation of irb, or a bug?

Ronald
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Ronald Fischer <[email protected]>
Phone: +49-89-452133-162

 

[Ronald Fischer]

This works, but that's not the point. The fact is that

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This is a bug of irb. I fix this bug in ruby-trunk(Ruby-1.9).

Thank you! I had overlooked your reply and have in the meantime=20
already opened a bug report on the Ruby bug tracker (id 12868) :-(

Ronald
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Ronald Fischer <[email protected]>
Phone: +49-89-452133-162