Le 5 fñ×rier 2009 21:50, James Byrne a ñÄrit :

> How do I get a literal string like /usr\/lib,test\/lib into a variable?
> Where are these extra '\' artifacts coming from?

It's just the representation.  IRB always shows strings double quoted,
and, in double quotes, a lone \ has to be escaped.

A small example is perhaps more convincing :

22:10 fred@balvenie:~% irb
>> x = '\/usr\/lib'
=> "\\/usr\\/lib"
>> x.length
=> 10
>> '\/usr\/lib' == "\\/usr\\/lib"
=> true

HTH,

Fred
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