From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T23:08:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslashes

On Sep 29, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Han Holl wrote:
> Why does
> '\\'.gsub('\\','\\\\').size
> produce 1 ?
>
> Is this a bug, or should it be specially documented ?

See "Explanation for the multitude of backslashes" on http:// 
rubygarden.org/ruby?RegexpCookbook