From: "nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)" <nobu@...>
Date: 2013-04-01T16:57:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53874] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8136] gsub strange behavior when substituting "\\'"


Issue #8136 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


You need more escapes.

  "foo".gsub("f", "\\\\'")
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Bug #8136: gsub strange behavior when substituting "\\'"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8136#change-38077

Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: doc
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.0.0


=begin
  s = "\\'"          # => "\\'"
  print s            # \' 
  "foo".gsub("f", s) # => "oooo"

Can anybody please explain to me why it works like this?  Is this a bug?
=end



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