From: Jens Nissen <frodo.hobbit@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T00:03:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28932] Re: Backslash Sequence Bug?

"Jesse Jones" <jesjones@mindspring.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:181220010026083370%jesjones@mindspring.com...
> According to the pickaxe book (page 64), this:
>
> text = "fred:smith"
> puts text.sub(/(\w+):(\w+)/, "\2, \1")
>
> should print "smith:fred", but on my system it prints ", ". Ruby
> -version returns:
>

Replace >> "\2, \1" << by  >> '\2, \1' << and everything works fine.
See page 64 in "Programming Ruby" :-)

Jens