From: Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T23:53:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslashes

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On 9/29/05, Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:
>
> 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<http://rubygarden.org/ruby?RegexpCookb=
ook>
>
> Thanks to you all.
Pickaxe2 seems to be silent about this. Maybe pickaxe3 ?

Cheers,

Han Holl

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