Create a symbol with brackets in ruby

Question

I'm trying to create a symbol in ruby with brackets. For example when I do the following:

2.0.0p247 :007 >  {hello: "something"}
 => {:hello=>"something"} 

This should be fine. However if I wanted to do "hello[]" as the symbol how would I do this?

Answer 1

Surround the name of the symbol in quotes:

:'hello[]'