From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-06-18T20:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub and regex

On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> I'm trying to replace all /\n / with /\n/ in a string, but gsub won't
> allow a regex as the replacement when a match occurs. I'm getting myself
> considerably confused about data types and regex, and just plain need
> some help. Is there some way to do this replacement, using gsub?
>
> Thanks,
>
> t.

I'm not sure I understand you. Do you want to replace all newline charactes 
followed by a space with a single newline character? If so, you don't need 
regexps at all:

str.gsub("\n ", "\n")

I hope this helps

Stefano