From: Rafael Viana <rafa.viana@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T00:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Single backslash in a string. How??

Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> How about posting the actual code you use to get the bad result and what 
> you want as a good result with it?

The problem is simple

I want to be able to tell if a variable contains the value "\d", but I 
can't seem to be able to represent this value with ruby.

This problem only occurs with the letters "d" and "l"

try "\d" and "\\d" in irb and you'll understand what I mean
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