From: ridcully <google@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T20:20:03+09:00
Subject: Problem with String.gsub and \' as a replacement string

Hi,

I want to replace all occurences of a certain character in a string
with a backslash followed by a single quote. Sounds like a trivial
task, but this is what I get:

"this is a test".gsub( "a", "\\'" )   -> "this is  test test"

What I want is "this is \' test".

Neither does this work:
"this is a test".gsub( "a", '\' + "'" )

No matter what I am doing, as soon as a backslash is followed by a
single quote in the replacement string, I am getting weird results.

Thanks for your help!

Andreas