From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-11-19T03:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to use regexp to replace character with backslash plus this character

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> Thank you. But what is the interpretation of 5! backshlashes. First
> two to achieve one textual backslash -- the last one, to get the
> on-fly variable. And the rest two?

Please search the mailing list archive - this question comes up at
least once a month.

Try this:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/search?group=comp.lang.ruby&q=backslash&qt_g=1