Question

I’ve failed to work out how I can print and display white space characters as something that I can actually ‘see’. So for example,

x = "123\n"
print x

I’d like the output to be

123\n

rather than

123
.

The above ‘.’ represents the new line created by ‘\n’.

Answer 1

s = "abc\ndef"

p s
# >> "abc\ndef"

# it's equivalent to
puts s.inspect 
# >> "abc\ndef"