From: Stefan Lang <devlists-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-02-06T07:16:10+09:00
Subject: Re: regex trick


On Monday, February 06, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Alain FELER wrote:
>I want to replace all ' by \' ? (I need it to do inserts in mysql).
> > s = "j'ai"
> > s.gsub!(/'/,'\'')
> > p s			==> gives j'ai and not j\'ai as I want
>Thanks for help.
>

  s.gsub!("'", "\\\\'")

should do the trick.

Regards,
  Stefan


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