From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T20:22:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with String.gsub and \' as a replacement string

ridcully wrote:
> 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.
Backslashes are confusing.   Try this:

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

-- 
Alex