From: Wayne Walker <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T01:52:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29514] [Bug #3147] gsub evaluates the passed in replacement string making results unpredictable when replacement string is dynamically generated

Bug #3147: gsub evaluates the passed in replacement string making results unpredictable when replacement string is dynamically generated
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3147

Author: Wayne Walker
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2009-08-04 patchlevel 383) [i386-linux]

after the interpreter evaluates the replacement string (if it's a literal in "" or ''), gsub further evaluates it during execution changing the effective replacement string.

irb(main):016:0> a = 'Y'
=> "Y"
irb(main):017:0> b = 'Z\1'
=> "Z\\1"
irb(main):018:0> c = '\\\1'
=> "\\\\1"
irb(main):019:0> a.gsub(/(Y)/, b)
=> "ZY"
irb(main):020:0> a.gsub(/(Y)/, c)
=> "\\1"

The last result is expected to be   "\\Y"


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