From: Pavel Pvl <pavel989@...>
Date: 2007-12-31T02:18:10+09:00
Subject: Re: sub is odd with #

> First of all, I think what you see is not a '/' but a '\'.
> 
> I don't think the \ is part of the returned string. I assume you're 
> trying
> this in irb. irb displays the return value of every expression using its
> inspect method. String#inspect escapes some characters, such as double 
> quotes
> and the # character, when it would be interpreted as the beginning of 
> string
> interpolation. Since "#@" is the beginning of a string interpolation, it 
> gets
> escaped. If you do a puts '@@@@'.sub('@','#'), or examine the first 
> element
> of the returned string, you'll see that the returned string is correct.
d by String#inspect.

> Stefano

thanks for all the replies! but this was true, i tried it with puts and
it came out normal. TY!!!
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