From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-04-12T10:44:28+09:00
Subject: Re: surprise in sub

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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:20 AM, matt neuburg <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

> irb(main):001:0> s = "\\\\"
> => "\\\\"
> irb(main):002:0> s.length
> => 2
> irb(main):003:0> s = "howdy".sub("howdy", s)
> => "\\"
> irb(main):004:0> s.length
> => 1
>

Yeah, escaping and escaping-of-escaping with substition and Strings being
used as a poor-man's-regexp always catches me out. Thanks for the heads up
on this one.

Arlen

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