From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T02:35:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19301] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

On 06 Aug 2001 18:16:04 +0900, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
> 
> >>>>>> "R" == Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@alcatel.fr> writes:
> > 
> >R> [ ... ]
> >R>
> >R> 4) To replace a single backslash with two, you need to write gsub(/\\/,
> >R> '\\\\\\\\')!! Ouch!
> > 
> >   http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq-9.html#ss9.18
> > 
> >  You can write '\&\&', only 4 characters
> 
> But to replace the letter 'a' with two backslashes, you still have ...
> 
>   gsub(/a/, '\\\\\\\\')
> 
> However, you can also do this:
> 
>   gsub(/\\/){'\\\\'}
> 
> and
> 
>   gsub(/a/){'\\\\'}
> 

What about gsub(/a/) {%Q(\\)} ??

/Erik

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