From: james Cunningham <cryptoj@...>
Date: 2005-12-27T16:27:53+09:00
Subject: escape sequences for } { and $ in gsub

I've found an older thread regarding escape sequences and gsub - but I
did not understand all of the explanation. I am trying to replace the
following string portion

\$\symbol{92}

with

$

and from the older thread it looks as if something like the following
is required:

gsub!(/\\$$\\symbol{{92}}/,'$')

after about three hours of fiddling with the above expression the best
I've obtained has been with

gsub!(/\\symbol{92/,'$')

but this does not solve the substitution problem. I must be using the
wrong escape sequence for $ and }.

Does anyone have any recommendations or pointers to documentation on
escape sequences and gsub? Thank you in advance for your advice.

best regards, James Cunningham