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instance method

String#dump

dump → string

Returns a printable version of self, enclosed in double-quotes, with special characters escaped, and with non-printing characters replaced by hexadecimal notation:

Example
"hello \n ''".dump    # => "\"hello \\n ''\""
"\f\x00\xff\\\"".dump # => "\"\\f\\x00\\xFF\\\\\\\"\""

Related: String#undump (inverse of String#dump).

Ruby version changes

  1. 3.0
See also #downcase! #each_byte #downcase #each_char also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.0