How to use escape characters in strings

Question

I\'ve been working my way through the Ruby Koans and am confused by the \"escape clauses and single quoted strings\" examples.

One example shows that I can\'t reall

Answer 1

This might be worth a read : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Strings

ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > a = '\\\''
 => "\\'" 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :003 > a.size
 => 2 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :004 > puts a
\'

In single quotes there are only two escape characters : \\ and \'.