Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is partially in irb [...] > if you switch one of the two quoted strings to use an alternative quote, works - thanks! I still consider irb and .to_yaml the most useful testing tools, tripping on an irb issue can happen :-) Martin PS: Sadly, of the replies only 107141 and 107155 made it to my point of NNTP world, 107[140|144|147|148] seem to be lost - bad ratio :-/ Google groups has all 6 replies.