From: John Wright <ruby@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T00:24:52+09:00
Subject: gsub and backslashes

Say I want to replace all occurrences of \ in a string with \\:

test = "a string with \\ a backslash"
puts test.gsub(/\\/, "\\\\") #no worky
=> a string with \ a backslash

puts test.gsub(/\\/, "\\\\\\") #why does this work?
=> a string with \\ a backslash

Why does the replacement string have to be six backslashes? Hopefully
this is really simple and I'm just being dense...

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