From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T02:17:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Replacing ' with \' using gsub

Seems to me like a bug in the regex code.
using ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]

J.

On 7/21/06, Jani Soila <janisoila@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to replace "'" characters with "\'" strings using gsub. What
> happened instead was something completely different. Am I missing
> something here?
> (in irb)
> irb(main):001:0> s = "a'b'"
> => "a'b'"
> Unexpected result
> irb(main):002:0> s.gsub(/'/, "\\'")
> => "ab'b"
> Also with this
> irb(main):003:0> s.gsub(/'/, '\\\'')
> => "ab'b"
> However this works
> irb(main):004:0> s.gsub(/'/, "\\x'")
> => "a\\x'b\\x'"
>
> Thank you for your help!
>  -js
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