From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T05:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: using a \ in gsub

On 7/15/06, brandon coleman <metrix1978@gmail.com> wrote:
> In IRB if I type the following:
> "te/st".gsub('/','\')
> into irb, IRB screws up.
> but if I type
> File.expand_path($0).gsub('/','\\')
> I get te\\st. what gives?? how do I get ruby to come up with te\st?
>
> what I am trying to do is this:
> File.expand_path($0).gsub('/','\') because with ruby in windows it uses
> a / instead of a \ for path names which is screwing my pathnames up..
> any suggestions???

File.expand_path($0).gsub(%r{/}) { "\\" }

-austin
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