From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-19T03:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to use regexp to replace character with backslash plus this character

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   1.8.5.
> 
>   I want to 'correct' filenames for unix shell so I want to preceed
> any let's say & with backslash. Here is code translated from my
> original script in Perl -- end of the function
> 
>   return filename.gsub(/([\;\!\&\%\$\' ])/,'\\\1')
> 
> However it doesn't do anything good. If I put space in the middle
> \\ \1
> 
>   the replacament is correctly recognized. But I don't want to use
> space in the middle. What's wrong here?

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#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

data = ";!&%$"

data.gsub!(%r{([;!&%$' ])},'\\\\\1') 

puts data
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Output:

\;\!\&\%\$

-- 
Paul Lutus
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