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## Overview
In Ruby, the **`inspect` string method** is used to return a printable version of a string that is surrounded by quotes. If there are any special characters present in the string, they will be escaped.

## Syntax
```ruby
str.inspect
```

## Parameters
* `str`: The string that we want to inspect.

## Return value
This method returns a string that is surrounded by quotation marks. 

## Code example


# create strings
str1 = "Edpresso"
str2 = "is"
str3 = "awesome"

# inspect strings
a = str1.inspect
b = str2.inspect
c = str3.inspect

# print results
puts a
puts b
puts c

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## Code explanation
* Lines 2–4: We create some strings and initialize them with values.
* Lines 7–9: We call the `inspect` method on the strings that we created and store the results in the variables `a`, `b`, and `c`.
* Lines 12–14: We print the results to the console.

What is the string.inspect method in Ruby?

Overview

Syntax

Parameters

Return value

Code example

Code explanation