From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T22:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with String.gsub and \' as a replacement string

On Nov 17, 2007 7:20 PM, ridcully <google@ridcully.net> wrote:
> "this is a test".gsub( "a", "\\'" )   -> "this is  test test"

many ways, eg

~> "this is a test".gsub("i",Regexp.escape("\\'"))
=> "th\\'s \\'s a test"

~> "this is a test".gsub("i"){"\\'"}
=> "th\\'s \\'s a test"

the block form seems clean though.

kind regards -botp