From: "Ralf Müller" <r_mueller@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T23:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: writing to a file with gsub!

On Wed, 4 May 2005 23:06:21 +0900
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Great. 
At last i can get rid of these perl one-liners.


best regards 
ralf