From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2004-08-18T05:18:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in gsub with "\\" ?

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:02:41 +0900, mark sparshatt
<msparshatt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> when Ruby parses the string "\\'" it converts it into "\'" which is
> passed into gsub. within gsub \' is a reference to the part of the
> string to the right of the part that matched, which is why you get the
> results you're seeing.
> 
> A way that would work is
> 
> somestr.gsub(/'/, "\\\\'")
> 
> or to stick to using the block form

Ah.  Okay -- thanks for the explanation!

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