Ruby space character does not equal space character. Why?

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Ruby space character does not equal space character. Why?



I have what I think is a bizarre issue in Ruby (2.2.2). The following statement is returning false


" " == " "



One of the spaces is from a user's input, the other is from my keyboard. I simply copied the user's character from a remote Rails Console (an ActiveRecord field) and pasted it into a local irb and the statement is still returning false.



The same result occurs for


" ".include? " "



Any ideas on why/how this might be happening?









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