Nuby: %w to understand quotes

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Justin Collins [mailto:collinsj@seattleu.edu] :

# In that case, wouldn't it be easier to just do

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#
# ["sample", "short sample", "there is quite a number of strings longer
# than this"]

that's what i'm doing now (instead of escaping). But as much as possible, I would like to quote only when needed.

Right now,

irb(main):004:0* %w{test this is a test}
=> ["test", "this", "is", "a", "test"]
irb(main):005:0> %w{test "this is" "a test"}
=> ["test", "\"this", "is\"", "\"a", "test\""]
irb(main):006:0>

The quotes have no use. Maybe ruby 1.9 can make use of them.

kind regards -botp

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But why? %w is intended as a shortcut when everthing is a single word. For
anything else, use quotes.

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On Sunday 23 April 2006 08:30 pm, Botp wrote:

Justin Collins [mailto:collinsj@seattleu.edu] :

# In that case, wouldn't it be easier to just do
#
# ["sample", "short sample", "there is quite a number of strings longer
# than this"]

that's what i'm doing now (instead of escaping). But as much as possible, I
would like to quote only when needed.