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Ruby Ruby Foundations Strings Special Characters and Escaping

Posted by John Stoveld
John Stoveld
4,203 Points

Issues with IRB ends listening.

For some reason when I get about 16 lines into using IRB it stops listening and i have to close out Terminal.

Screen Shot below :

http://imgur.com/T92nXoA

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

If you see this in IRB prompt: "

It means the interpreter is waiting for some kind of ending of what you started. In your case, you started a string after puts and you did not close it because \" prints the " symbol but does not close the string itself.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

So you would have to have \"" or write the missing " in the next line.

John Stoveld
John Stoveld
4,203 Points

Oddly, Pressing Cntl + C (Puts up C^) kicked me back out.

The ide is definitely acting a little funny.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Ctrl+C usually closes stuff in the console.

John Stoveld
John Stoveld
4,203 Points

Makes sense.

Following me through the forums appears to be doing well for your +1's Appreciate the help.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

It's not personal, I follow Ruby forum all the time, since there aren't many people who answer questions here.