<p>Is there support in Ruby for (for lack of a better word) non-escaped (verbatim) strings?</p>

<p>Like in C#:</p>

<pre><code>@"c:\Program Files\"
</code></pre>

<p>...or in Tcl:</p>

<pre><code>{c:\Program Files\}
</code></pre>

Yes, you need to prefix your string with
```
%
```
and then a single character delineating its type.
The one you want is
```
%q{c:\program files\}
```
.
The pickaxe book covers this nicely
here,
section is General Delimited Input.