From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-07-30T04:55:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding "\" in a string

William James wrote:
> Eric Armstrong wrote:
>> Paul Battley wrote:
>>> On 29/07/06, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> puts "\\foo\\bar".gsub(/\\/, '\&\&' )
>>>> \\foo\\bar
>>> Nice solution.
>>>
>> I'll say! Wild! What makes /that/ work???
> 
> \& is simply what was matched by the regex.
> 
Too cool. I love it.
Thanks.

Another instructive thread.
What a great list.
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