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Practice Strings in Ruby

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2:12 with Jay McGavren

Now that you've coded your solution to the practice problem, I'll show you how I did it.

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Here's my code:

puts 'When you include \t in a double-quoted string in Ruby, it looks like this:'
puts "before\tafter"
puts 'When you include \n in a double-quoted string, it looks like this:'
puts "before\nafter"

Ruby escape sequences

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    Here's my solution, it's okay if yours is slightly different, but 0:00
    if you see something interesting in my code you should consider borrowing it to 0:00
    improve your own program. 0:03
    So for each line where I need to show what an escape sequence looks like in code, 0:07
    it's a bit of a pain to have to escape the \. 0:11
    So what I did was, I put those lines in single quoted strings. 0:14
    That way when I put /t, it puts that literal value, /t, into the output. 0:19
    Then, for lines where I need to show what the escape sequence actually looks like 0:27

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