From: Joel VanderWerf <skeeler@...>
Date: 2001-04-25T17:10:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14205] Re: gsub and literal strings


Aha! Regexp.escape.

I'm still puzzled by the different semantics of String#[]= and gsub, though.

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 
> How do you do a global string substitution when the pattern string is
> given and may contain characters like $ * and so on?
....

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Joel VanderWerf
skeeler@sirius.com