From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T23:06:21+09:00
Subject: Re: writing to a file with gsub!

On May 4, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Ralf M�ller wrote:

> On Wed, 4 May 2005 22:30:07 +0900
> "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
>> But it's simpler - as simple as
>>
>> ruby -pi.bak -e 'gsub /\d+/, "###"' your_file
>>
>
> But what about using \1 and \n in the second argument of gsub. Doesn't 
> require \1 single-quotes
> and \n double quotes?

No.  If you want to put \1 in double quotes, just add a backslash.  
"\\1\n" works fine.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II