From: Chris Gernon <kabigon@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T02:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about strings

Grant Hollingworth wrote:
> 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!"

Using a block for the substitution appears to work:

>> "This is Will's string!".gsub(/(\')/) {|m| '\\' + m}
=> "This is Will\\'s string!"

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