From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T11:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Using a variable with gsub & sub

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> yermej,
> Your solution was exactly what I needed, thanks.  As for the \\, that is 
> part of the first value that is being replaced.  The first backslash is 
> an escape character for the second backshash.
> Thanks again,
> PETERV
>
> yermej wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 15, 3:34 pm, Peter Vanderhaden <bostonanti...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> In the following statement, I'm replacing ,, with ,NULL,.
>>>
>>> $inrec = $inrec.sub(',,\\',',NULL,')
>>>
>>> What I want to do is something like this:
>>>
>>> $inrec = $inrec.sub(',,\\',',$variable,')
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out the syntax for using a
>>> variable with sub & gsub.  Can someone help me out?
>>>       
>> $inrec.gsub! ',,\\', ",#{$variable},"
>>
>> Though I'm not sure why you have the \\ in there, unless it just
>> didn't end up on the newsgroup correctly.
>>     
>
>   
If you really want to use global variables ($var) then you can also do

$inrec.gsub!(',,\\', ",#$variable,")