From: Jesse Jones <jesjones@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T00:31:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28949] Re: Backslash Sequence Bug?

In article <9vn3dh$gfl6v$1@ID-104974.news.dfncis.de>, Jens Nissen
<frodo.hobbit@gmx.net> wrote:

> "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" :-)

Damn, I could have sworn I had tried that. Thanks for the help. :-)

  -- Jesse