Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 20:35:43 schrieb Peter Tosh:
> But in my program I need to compare it to a string from the database:
> "c:\test". When Ruby internally stores it as "c:\\test", how do I
> compare the two?

ruby internally stores it as 
01100011001110100101110001110100011001010111001101110100 - so does your 
database. And you compare them using == usually.