I want to turn off backslashing of quotes and such from the shell

ruby-talk
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I do something like:
result=`cat mess.html`
p result

and all my quotes in my html file are suddenly backslashed. Is there any way
to turn that off?

xc

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Hi,

At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,
<xeno@eskimo.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:255079]:

result=`cat mess.html`

  puts result

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Hi,

At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,
<xeno@eskimo.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:255079]:
> result=`cat mess.html`
  puts result

Or

print result

if you don't want an extra newline appended.

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:51:16PM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

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Nobu Nakada

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Anthony Martinez wrote:

Hi,

At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,
<xeno@eskimo.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:255079]:

result=`cat mess.html`

Yeah, looks like I only get the backslashes inserted when I use "p"
instead of puts and print. Thanks.

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:51:16PM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

  puts result

Or

print result

if you don't want an extra newline appended.

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Anthony Martinez wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,
>> <xeno@eskimo.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:255079]:
>>> result=`cat mess.html`

Yeah, looks like I only get the backslashes inserted when I use "p"
instead of puts and print. Thanks.

That's a feature.

seltzer:~/devel/bazaar/EarGTD sandal$ irb

a = "foo

oo"
=> "foo\noo"

puts a

foo
oo

p looks for the .inspect output, wheras puts uses .to_s
useful for debugging.

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On 6/11/07, Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:51:16PM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: