From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-10-18T23:40:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22712] Re: Slashes in regexp

Morris, Chris wrote:


> 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?


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

Inside "" s, the \ s get resolved (plus #{} s). Inside '', nothing gets resolved.


Tobi



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