From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T03:21:09+09:00
Subject: Re: double-slashes in input causing trouble

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Edwin Fine wrote:

> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> >>    new_body = body.sub(original_section, new_section)
> >      new_body = body.sub(Regexp.new(Regexp.quote(original_section)),
> >                                            new_section)
        [...]
> >> end
> > 
> >         # Hugh
> 
> Makes no difference. String#sub states that metacharacters in the 
> pattern will not be interpreted if the pattern is a String and not a 
> Regexp.
        [...] 
> The problem is that the backslashes in the REPLACEMENT string are being 
> interpreted.

Oops!  
        Hugh