From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T23:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: why gsub! doesn't work in my script

Jason Roelofs wrote:
> Backslash ( \ ) is the escape character. If you want to match \ itself, 
> you
> need to escape it ( \\ ). So try these regex's:
> 
> r1_obj=Regexp.escape('1.000000\\$P1G\\1.000000') #pattern
> r2_obj=Regexp.escape('2.000000\\$P1G\\2.000000') #replacement
> 
> Jason

Thanks, but the replacement still doesn't work.

It is my understanding that Regexp#escape method should do the magic 
work for me.

Li


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