Ruby string include? percent sign include? '%' (Rubymine debugger) -

this due in watches section of rubymine debugger. irb works fine

i'm mystified. cannot figure out how see if ruby string includes % sign.

i've tried:

text = "foo %{bar}"  text.include? '%' text.include? '\%' text.include? '%%' 

...as double quotes. i've tried regex equivalents. i'm sure incredibly simple isn't found through search due normal use of symbol.

not problem has been identified ide. vote close. thank you

i don't see problem when using include? '%':

text = "foo %{bar}"  text.include? '%'  # => true text.include? '\%' # => false text.include? '%%' # => false 

you can use string [] shortcuts:

text['%'] # => "%" !!text['%'] # => true