From: Norbert Koch <nk@...>
Date: 2001-04-25T22:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14218] Re: Escaping single qoutes

"Christian Rish" <chrris@mail.dk> writes:

> I have a string containing some single qoutes which I would like to prefix
> with a backslash:
> 
>     s = "yadda'yadda'yadda"
> 
>     s.gsub(/'/, "\\'")        >>     yaddayadda'yaddayaddayaddayadda
>     s.gsub(/'/, "\\\'")       >>     yaddayadda'yaddayaddayaddayadda
>     s.gsub(/'/, "\\\\'")      >>     yadda\\'yadda\\'yadda
> 
> What am I missing?

I've successfully tried

puts s.gsub("'", "\\\\'")       >>     yadda\'yadda\'yadda

norbert.
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