From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2006-02-06T07:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: regex trick


On 5-Feb-06, at 5:08 PM, 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!(/'/, "\\\\'")

or

s.gsub!(/'/) { "\\'" }

will do what you want

Hope this helps,

Mike

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