From: "jacob.dunphy@..." <jacob.dunphy@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T03:31:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Escape character is strings

You can use the integer equivalent of the character as well.

fold.include?(92)

On Nov 26, 6:51 am, Deepu Damodaran <deepu.damoda...@wipro.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very new to Ruby. My problem is simply to search for '\' character
> from a string. The string is the windows file path. I have to either
> escape the '\' character or substitute it with '/'. But String::include?
> methods doesn't seems to be helpful. Please see the log.
>
> irb(main):004:0> fold = "abcdefgh/ajf;ldsj\dfd"
> => "abcdefgh/ajf;ldsjdfd"
> irb(main):005:0> puts fold.include?("\\")
> false
> => nil
> irb(main):006:0> puts fold.include?("\")
> irb(main):007:1"
>
> so how can we search for the '\' using .include?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Deepu D
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