From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-02-22T03:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird behaviour escaping special characters in a string

On 2/21/07, Greg Hurrell <greg.hurrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> This instance method added to the String class returns a copy of the
> receiver with occurrences of \ replaced with \\, and occurrences of '
> replaced with \':
>
> class String
>   def to_source_string
>     gsub(/(\\|')/, '\\\\\1')
>   end
> end

  class String
    def to_source_string
      gsub(/(\\|')/) { "\\#$1" }
    end
  end

-austin
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