I just faced this question in interview. Is it possible to escape character within single quotes in ruby?
The confusion is in following code
puts '\\' # Output: \
puts '\n' # Output: \n
It seems that backword slash is escaped but the newline character isn't.
I am aware of this question but I am not asking about difference between single and double quote. I am asking about whether it's possible to escape characters in single quotes or not? And why only backslash is allowed to escape?
The only characters that needs to be escaped in a single quoted string are
'\\'
(for backslash\
) and'\''
(for single quote'
itself).