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Sven Vanlandschoot
Sven Vanlandschoot
11,252 Points
Posted by Sven Vanlandschoot
Sven Vanlandschoot
11,252 Points

adding ice cream to the list using %w

Using the %w is nice when the word is only 1 word. but what if I want to add Ice cream?

Is it possible to use %w

2 Answers

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

You can escape the space using a backslash ()

> %w(tacos apples pizza ice\ cream)
=> ["tacos", "apples", "pizza", "ice cream"]