From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2001-10-18T22:17:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22710] Re: Slashes in regexp

From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com>
> ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i386-cygwin]
>
> irb(main):008:0> "test/page".scan(/\//)
> ["/"]
> irb(main):009:0> "test\page".scan(/\\/)
> []
>
> What am I doing wrong in the second statement that it's not returning the
> backslash?

You're not escaping the \ character in the string literal, so the string
does not contain the character when it is scanned.

irb(main):001:0> "test\page"
"testpage"
irb(main):002:0> "test\\page"
"test\\page"
irb(main):003:0> "test\\page".scan(/\\/)
["\\"]

Cheers,
            Nat.