From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-22T17:13:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby GSUB question

From: Brian Candler [mailto:b.candler@pobox.com] 
#...
# Inside a single- or double-quoted string, \ is an escape 
# character, and 
# to get a literal backslash you have to escape it with another 
# backslash. 
# So "\\" is a single backslash; "\\\\" is two backslashes.
#...
# <snipped enlightening message>


otoh, perl also has regex power tools like \Q..\E eg
(escaping without using the backslash ie)

maybe we could have something similar?

=)

kind regards -botp