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authorzzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2014-03-14 03:09:17 +0000
committerzzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2014-03-14 03:09:17 +0000
commitcac997eb95eb74a48febb54e357bfe991ad7de6c (patch)
tree61c68615257b18519130b3d69ed3b6748b3f8c59
parent4a91fb7a45f0e3c28a3b7e2eff17d7fa94de7254 (diff)
downloadruby-cac997eb95eb74a48febb54e357bfe991ad7de6c.tar.gz
* doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] Single quote strings allows escape
of backslash as well, patch by @idupree [Fixes GH-553] [ci skip] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/553 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@45332 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Mar 14 12:07:46 2014 Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io>
+
+ * doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] Single quote strings allows escape
+ of backslash as well, patch by @idupree [Fixes GH-553]
+ https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/553
+
Fri Mar 14 01:18:24 2014 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
* vm.c (invoke_block_from_c): add splattable argument.
diff --git a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
index e01b6875d4..32e10edd30 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
+++ b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ single-quote strings:
'#{1 + 1}' #=> "\#{1 + 1}"
In addition to disabling interpolation, single-quoted strings also disable all
-escape sequences except for the single-quote (<tt>\'</tt>).
+escape sequences except for the single-quote (<tt>\'</tt>) and backslash
+(<tt>\\\\</tt>).
You may also create strings using <tt>%</tt>: