How to add escape sequence to String variables?

Question

When adding one escape character to string and printing the output does not replace escape character in the output string

indent = '\t'
message = 'Hello there'
message = "#{indent} #{message}"
puts(message)

From the above code output printed is as below

\t Hello there

What is wrong with this code? What is the way to achieve the intended output?

Martín Muñoz del Río · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-07 05:07:28Z

4

You have to use " instead ' in:

indent = '\t'

Look:

irb(main):001:0> indent = '\t'
=> "\\t"
irb(main):002:0> indent = "\t"
=> "\t"

answered Nov 7, 2015 at 5:07

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