On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthim...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi:
>
> --- On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh
> <prasmai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> | Can you please show me an example code for this statement alone?
> \--
>
>  @now = `date`
>  puts @now
>
Yeah.. thanks for this, it works but may i know why Backticks are preferred
over system, inspite it increases lines of code.

>
> ` is a backtick or a backquote.
>


-- 
Regards,
Prasanna Venkadesh
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