From: Grant Hollingworth <grant@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T01:55:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about strings

* William Carpin <wcarpin@autorevenue.com> [2006-10-26 10:25]:
>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.

Your replacement string ends up as \', which is the equivalent of Perl's $' (the substring from the match to the end).

The best solution I could find was to match the space before the quotation mark.

>> "I am Will's string!".gsub(/(?=')/,'\\')
=> "I am Will\\'s string!"