Ruby - Prevent auto escape characters

Question

I have e.g. r = "\t" and a = "thisisabigbad\wolf"

How can I prevent ruby from auto escaping my string and also count the \ at the same time?

a.count r #=> this should return 2 instead of 0

I wish to do a.count and receive 2

I wish to count \ but in this case. it is escaping it. I though it is part of ruby's implementation @sawa — Charlie, Mar 08 '15 at 14:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '15 at 14:16

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You can use single quotes:

[17] pry(main)> r = '\t'
=> "\\t"
[18] pry(main)> r.size
=> 2
[20] pry(main)> a = 'thisisabigbad\wolf'
=> "thisisabigbad\\wolf"
[21] pry(main)> a.size
=> 18

answered Mar 08 '15 at 14:16

Anthony

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