Ruby | String inspect Method

inspect is a String class method in Ruby which is used to return a printable version of the given string, surrounded by quote marks, with special characters escaped.

Syntax: str.inspect

Parameters:

Returns: Here, str is the given string.

Example 1:

# Ruby program to demonstrate
# the inspect method

# Taking a string and
# using the method
puts "Sample".inspect
puts "Articles".inspect

Output:

"Sample"
"Articles"

Example 2:

# Ruby program to demonstrate
# the inspect method

# Taking a string and
# using the method
puts "Ru \n y".inspect
puts "Ar\b\\bcles".inspect

Output:

"Ru \n y"
"Ar\b\\bcles"