From: William Carpin <wcarpin@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T01:25:06+09:00
Subject: Question about strings

Okay, given the following string:

"This is Will's string!"

what I'm trying to do is replace the single-tick "'" character with a 
backslash/single-tick "\'", so I can use use that string in a sql query.

To do this in Perl, you'd do the following:

myString =~ s/\'//g;

...which doesn't work in Ruby.

I also tried using the gsub function, with "\\\'" passed in as the 
second parameter, and it just started outputting some sort sort of 
goofiness with characters replaced by sub-elements of the string for 
which I was calling the function on and the like.

I scoured Google for awhile but didn't find anything.  Any ideas?

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