From: Sean Chittenden <sean-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2001-10-19T04:51:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22721] Re: Slashes in regexp

> 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?

Little trick I use everywhere to get around this:

re = Regexp.new(/#{Regexp.escape('\foo\bar')}/)

This way I only have to escape it once for the function: Regexp.escape 
takes care of the rest for me.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden