From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T06:52:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding "\" in a string

On 28/07/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
> I'm going crazy, right? Surely it is possible
> to find a backslash (\) in a string, and
> replace it with two backslashes. That's simple,
> right? Just gsub("\\", '\\'). That's all there
> is to it.

You're not going crazy. You just need eight of 'em. Yes, really!

testpath = "\\foo\\bar"
result = testpath.gsub("\\", "\\\\\\\\")
p result # => "\\\\foo\\\\bar"

Paul.