From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2007-06-07T07:10:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when substituting a backslash in a string

On 6/6/07, Federico Zagarzaz� <fzagarzazu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why can't I substitute a single backslash in a string?
>
> a = "\\6"
> p a     # => "\\6"
> puts a  # => \6
> p a.sub('\', '')
>

On that last line, your backslash is escaping the single quote and
causing parsing lossage.

How's about this:
p a.sub("\\", '')

Hope that helps,
-Harold