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Maintenance Ruby 3.4 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

String#inspect

() -> ::String
inspect → string

Returns a printable version of self, enclosed in double-quotes, and with special characters escaped:

Example
s = "foo\tbar\tbaz\n"
s.inspect
# => "\"foo\\tbar\\tbaz\\n\""
See also #insert #intern #initialize_copy #length also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0