From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T16:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: keep changes in string outside of scope?


"James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:CFC5333A-10CF-11D9-8CFB-000A95BA45F8@grayproductions.net...
> > What about:
> >
> > thestring.gsub!(/(\d{5})/, '\1')
>
> Oops, forgot the period.  The replace string should be '.\1'.  Sorry

He wanted a comma...
:-)

And without diving too far into escape handling I'd use

thestring.gsub!(/\d{5}/, ',\\&')

Note also, that you don't need the grouping.

    robert