From: lists@...
Date: 2005-12-27T17:44:29+09:00
Subject: Re: escape sequences for } { and $ in gsub

james Cunningham wrote:
 > 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
 >
 > $
 >

is this what you need?

b = "WWWW\\$\\symbol{92}KKKK"
puts b.gsub(/\\\$\\symbol\{92\}/, '$')

 >WWWW$KKKK

just escape the
    \
    $
    {
    }

with a \ each.

or, don't use regular expressions:

puts b.gsub('\\$\\symbol{92}', '$')



hope this helps
-ramil