Is there support in Ruby for (for lack of a better word) non-escaped (verbatim) strings?
Like in C#:
@'c:\Program Files\'
…or in Tcl:
{c:\Program Files\}
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Yes, you need to prefix your string with
%and then a single character delineating its type.The one you want is
%q{c:\program files\}.The pickaxe book covers this nicely here, section is General Delimited Input.