From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T21:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub and \\\\


"Florian Gross" <flgr@ccan.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:357nbmF4j4bmmU1@individual.net...
> Bill Kelly wrote:
>
> > I'm probably being dense, but -
> >
> >>>"ab\\cd".gsub(/\\/, "\\\\")
>
> Here's the details, this comes up frequently:

In fact we could make this thread sticky - if that were possible with news
and mail readers. :-)

Just to add one point to your excellent explanation: Another source of
confusion in this context is irb which uses String#inspect which in turn
adds escaping again:

irb(main):001:0> s = "a\\b"
=> "a\\b"
irb(main):002:0> puts s
a\b
=> nil

Kind regards

    robert