irb 0.9.5 for Windows:
irb(main):016:0> puts ‘\c’
irb(main):017:0’
i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?
In case someone has a more recent release of irb, does this still
occur in the newer one?
Ronald F.
Ronald F. wrote:
irb 0.9.5 for Windows:
irb(main):016:0> puts ‘\c’
irb(main):017:0’i.e. irb expects a continuation line. Guess this is a bug?
Ronald F.
What about
puts “\c”
You need to use double quotes " " instead of single quotes ’ ’
because you’re dealing with an escape sequence (I assume).
But this is just my random guess at the solution to your problem…
so… keep it ruby 
On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Ronald F. wrote:
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What about
puts “\c”
This works, but that’s not the point. The fact is that
puts ‘\c’ works inside a Ruby program, but does not work
within irb.
Does anyone know whether this this a known limiation of irb, or a bug?
Ronald
This works, but that’s not the point. The fact is that
puts ‘\c’ works inside a Ruby program, but does not work
within irb.Does anyone know whether this this a known limiation of irb, or a
bug?This is a bug of irb. I fix this bug in ruby-trunk(Ruby-1.9).
Thank you! I had overlooked your reply and have in the meantime
already opened a bug report on the Ruby bug tracker (id 12868) 
Ronald
This works, but that’s not the point. The fact is that
puts ‘\c’ works inside a Ruby program, but does not work
within irb.Does anyone know whether this this a known limiation of irb, or a
bug?
This is a bug of irb. I fix this bug in ruby-trunk(Ruby-1.9).
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