From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T02:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Replacing ' with \' using gsub

irb(main):001:0> s = "a'b'"
=> "a'b'"
irb(main):002:0> s.gsub(/'/, "\\\'")
=> "ab'b"
irb(main):003:0> s.gsub(/'/, "\\\\\'")
=> "a\\'b\\'"

Regards, Morton

On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Jani Soila 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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