From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T11:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Escaping characters

Jeremy Woertink wrote:
> yermej wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 6, 7:00 pm, Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoert...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> second one I would expect it to return "\", instead it returns "\\" both
>>> the string that is returned is still wrong.
>>>
>>> ~Jeremy
>>> --
>>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>>       
>> If you actually output the string:
>>
>>     
>>> puts '\\'
>>>       
>> \
>> => nil
>>
>> you should get the result you're expecting.
>>     
> Rock on.
>
> So basically I had to do \\\\ just to get \\ and \\ just to get \. 
> Crazy, but it works so I'm happy.
> Thanks
>
>
> ~Jeremy
>   
Decent explanation here:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/240303

-Justin