Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> writes: > Could someone knowledgeable in Ruby's parse.y please verify the correct > lexing/scanning/tokenizing of general delimited strings exhibited by the > code below. I'm not a parse.y pro, but I believe you need to take into account escaped delimiters: dave[~/tmp 7:30:14] ruby -e 'p %q{aaa\}ddd}' "aaa}ddd" Regards Dave