From: Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T00:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslashes

Han Holl wrote:
> 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?RegexpCookbook>
>>
>>Thanks to you all.
> 
> Pickaxe2 seems to be silent about this. Maybe pickaxe3 ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Han Holl
> 
You cannot have one book cover EVERY aspect of a subject. People will 
hate when it grows to several volumes. That's where online resouces come 
in handy.

Gennady.