From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2013-06-11T21:45:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:55433] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8512] gsub() works incorrect


Issue #8512 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


This should be documented in Regexp's overview though.
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Bug #8512: gsub() works incorrect 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8512#change-39859

Author: galnaktar (Oleg K)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14) [i386-mingw32]
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


irb(main):005:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "\\\\").length 
=> 1 
irb(main):006:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "XX").length 
=> 2

bug is duplicated with rejected bug #8511


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