From: John Pritchard-williams <monojohnny@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T18:33:51+09:00
Subject: Re: escaping '

David Nguyen wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to replace ' by \'. How can I do that?
> 
> Thanks

This was harder than I thought...in "vi"(vim actually) I just had to:

1,$ s/'/\\'/g

But Ruby didn't seem to like that....

Anyway, for reasons unknown to me, this works:

puts "'hello'".gsub("'","\\\\'")

Cheers

John
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