escaping a string in Ruby

Question

I want to insert the following as the value for a variable in some Ruby:

`~!@#$%^&*()_-+={}|[]\\:\";\'<>?,./

Surrounding this in doub

Answer 1

<, and %q{} are your friends. Info on using them from the Programming Ruby The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide.

Try mixing the various approaches:

%q{`~!@#$%^&*()_-+}+"{}"+%q{=|[]\\:";'<>?,./}

or alternatively, just use backslashes to escape the problematic chars:

"`~!@\#$%^&*()_-+{}=|[]\\:\";'<>?,./"