Console pasting weirdness

Rails
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This is an odd one. I’m looking at a block of params sent through to
one of my controllers. As far as i can tell it works fine in the
controller. However, i wanted to check something so i looked at my log
file (with tail), and copied and pasted the params hash into my rails
console.

BUT: when it comes through, one of the double-quotes is mysteriously
disappearing, which breaks the parsing of the hash. It’s always the
same double quote. I copied it into gedit (i’m in ubuntu 8.04) and it’s
fine. I pasted it into vi as well and it looks fine there too.

I copied it from gedit into the console and got the same problem.

This just seems really random to me - does anyone have an explanation by
any chance?

BTW i tried it in standard irb and the same thing happens, except that
only the text after the troublesome double-quote symbol comes through.

This isn’t stopping me working or anything but it’s one of those
troubling quirks that will continue to niggle away at me.

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BTW, in case it’s relevant, here’s the params hash in question. The
double-quote that goes missing is at the start of the value for
lesson_id (ie just before 5422-1-Variety-test) about 3/4 of the way
through.

params = {“schedule”=> {“start_date(1i)”=>“2008”,
“start_date(2i)”=>“8”, “start_date(3i)”=>“12”, “start_date(4i)”=>“10”,
“start_date(5i)”=>“08”}, “time”=>“5 mins”,
“plan”=>{“year_group”=>“2”, “cross_references”=>"", “assessment”=>“some
stuff about assessment”, “date”=>"",
“displayed_sections”=>":schedule-section:cross-references-section:notes-section:",
“notes”=>“some general notes “, “differentiation”=>“differentiation
information “, “school”=>””, “keywords”=>“singing xylophone”},
“lesson_id”=>“5422-1-Variety-test”, “_method”=>“put”,
“action”=>“update”, “notes”=>””, “activities”=>"",
“controller”=>“plans”, “properties”=>[“1112”, “1125”, “1126”],
“groupings”=>""}