Question

I am trying to write a ruby string to a file in such a way that any newline characters embedded in the string remain embedded. This is being written out to a file which will then be processed by another tool.

An example is below.

I want this: 1 [label="this is a\ntest"] \n (second \n is a true newline)
I have tried this: string = '1 [label="this is a\ntest"]' + "\n"

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I figured it out. I was using rails word_wrap helper function to wrap text and that was using “\n” and not ‘\n’. I copied the function and wrote my own.

Good to go now.