From: Tom Counsell <tamc2@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T19:43:18+09:00
Subject: string.tr and \

Hello

I'm a little confused and would appreciate your help.  I would like to 
remove any \ characters from a string as well as some other characters.

'b\\c['.tr('\\','') # => 'bc', which is great.

'b\\c'.tr('\\c','.') # => 'b\\' which is not great.

Why does adding extra characters to the tr function stop the removal of 
\ characters?

(ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin7.7.0])

Thanks

Tom