From: Ganesh Gunasegaran <ganesh.gunasegaran@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T07:21:10+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub question

The slash in the txt variable should be escaped

The escaped version is as below

txt = "Messages posted to this group will make your email address
visible to anyone on the Internet. \\"
puts txt.gsub('\\' , ' ')

Of course if you are reading the content directly from a file you  
need not escape the slashes explicitly

gg.txt
~~~~
Messages posted to this group will make your email address
visible to anyone on the Internet. \

gg.rb
~~~~
string = File.read("gg.csv")
p string.gsub("\\", "")




Cheers,
Ganesh Gunasegaran.

On 26-Apr-07, at 3:35 AM, traktorman@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i'm new to ruby, and working mostly with text.
> i have this very simple program that reads a file and replaces all '\'
> with a whitespace. (rtf to txt conversion is causing an endless
> occurence of \'s).
> the way i do it :
>
> txt = "Messages posted to this group will make your email address
> visible to anyone on the Internet. \"
> puts txt.gsub('\' , ' ')
>
> produces an error:
> test.rb:1: unterminated string meets end of file
>
> i'd like to know what i'm doing wrong, or is there another way of
> doing it properly.
>
> thanks
> t
>
>