From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-27T02:38:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about strings

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, William Carpin wrote:

> 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?

irb(main):001:0> "This is Will's string!".gsub(/'/){ %q(\') }
=> "This is Will\\'s string!"


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