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Ruby Ruby Basics Strings Escape Sequences

Saadia Fattah
Saadia Fattah
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Posted by Saadia Fattah
Saadia Fattah
1,939 Points

I don't get it! why won't it go correctly on my first 2 put?

Whenever I try to it doesn't color cade like it's supposed to.

program.rb 
puts  \n
puts  \t
puts  \"cats

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

You need to pass strings to the puts method. Strings need to be surrounded with quotation marks. Try surrounding each of those with " double quotation marks.